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(Late a Representative from Missouri) 



MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 

DELIVERED IN THE 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

OF THE UNITED STATES 



SIXTY-SIXTH CONGRESS 
THIRD SESSION 



March 3, 1921 



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Proceedings in the House 5 

Prayer by Rev. James Shera Montgomery, D. D 7 

Memorial addresses by — 

Mr. Clement C. Dickinson, of Missouri 11 

Mr. Frederick H. Gillett, of Massachusetts 14 

Mr. Joseph G. Gannon, of Illinois 16 

Mr. Ben Johnson, of Kentucky 18 

Mr. James R. Mann, of Illinois 21 

Mr. Frank W. Mondell, of Wyoming 23 

"^■^Mr. Henry T. Rainey, of Illinois 25 

Mr. Leonidas C. Dyer, of Missouri 27 

Mr. Finis J. Garrett, of Tennessee 29 

Mr. John N. Tillman, of Arkansas 33 

Mr. Henry D. Flood, of Virginia 35 

Mr. William R. Wood, of Indiana 38 

Mr. Charles R. Crisp, of Georgia 39 

Mr. William A. Rodenberg, of Illinois 45 

Mr. Warren Gard, of Ohio 47 

Mr. Isaac R. Sherwood, of Ohio 48 

Mr. Edw. D. Hays, of Missouri 49 

Mr. Milton A. Romjue, of Missouri 52 

Mr. Charles M. Stedman, of North Carolina 56 

Mr. Thomas M. Bell, of Georgia 57 

Mr. John Q. Tilson, of Connecticut 59 

Mr. Charles E. Fuller, of Illinois 62 

Mr. William L. Igoe, of Missouri 63 

Mr. Isaac Siegel, of New York 65 

Mr. Joseph W. Byrns, of Tennessee 68 

Mr. J. M. C. Smith, of Michigan 70 

Mr. Thomas D. Schall, of Minnesota 73 

Mr. William N. Vaile, of Colorado 78 

Mr. Joe H. Eagle, of Texas 81 

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Funeral in the Hall of the House, Saturday, March 5, 1921 : page. 
Scripture reading by the Chaplain of the House, Rev. 

James Shera Montgomery, D. D 85 

Prayer by Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., Chaplain 

Emeritus 86 

The National Quartet, "How Firm a Foundation" 87 

Memorial addresses by — 

Mr. James R. Mann, of Illinois 87 

Mr. James A. Reed, of Missouri 89 

The National Quartet, "Come, Ye Disconsolate" 91 

Renediction by Rev. Earle Wilfley 91 

Proceedings in the Senate 95 

Prayer by Rev. J. J. Muir, D. D 98 



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Q^SCh 0*vryiarty. l:jda/&n*-T^ 



DEATH OF HON. CHAMP CLARK 



PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE 



Wednesday, March 2, 1921. 7^ 

Mr. RucKER. Mr. Speaker, it becomes my painful duty 
to announce to the House the death of one of its most 
prominent Members. Ex-Speaker Clark passed l^way a 
few moments ago at his hotel in this city. 

I talked with his son for a few moments an hour or 
two ago, and he said that his father's latest conscious 
expression gave voice to his great anxiety for the legisla- 
tive success of this Congress. He said his father, if he 
knew he could be heard, would say to his son that he 
wished there would be no adjournment in consequence 
of his death. 

At a later hour in the day, Mr. Speaker, I shall offer 
appropriate resolutions, which I trust the House will 
adopt. 

Mr. MoNDELL. Mr. Speaker, out of our high regard for 
our departed friend, our sincere sympathy with his family, »,^ 
and in honor of his memory, I ask that the House now 
stand in recess for 30 nainutes. 

The Speaker. The gentleman from Wyoming asks unan- 
imous consent that the House now stand in recess for 30 
minutes. Is there objection? 

There was no objection. 

Accordingly (at 2 o'clock and 22 minutes p. m.) the 
House stood in recess until 2 o'clock and 52 minutes p. m. 

Mr. Rucker. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that, 
beginning at 8 o'clock p. m., March 3, there may be an 

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hour in which Members shall have opportunity to deliver 
addresses upon the life, character, and public services of 
the late Champ Clark, a Representative from the State of 
Missouri. 

The Speaker. The gentleman from Missouri asks unani- 
mous consent that to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock an hour 
be set apart for memorial exercises on the late Hon. 
Champ Clark. Is there objection? [After a pause.] The 
Chair hears none. 

Mr. Rucker. Mr. Speaker, I present the following reso- 
lutions. 

The "Speaker. The Clerk will report the resolutions. 

The Clerk read as follows : 

In the House of Representatives, United States, 

March 2, 1921. 

Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of 
the death of Hon. Champ Clark, a Representative from the State 
of Missouri. 

Resolved, That a committee of the House be appointed to take 
order for superintending the funeral of Mr. Clark in the Hall of 
the House of Representatives at 10 o'clocic and 30 minutes ante- 
meridian, on Saturday, March 5, instant, and that the Members 
of the present House and of the House elect attend the same. 

Resolved, That, as a further mark of respect, the remains of 
Mr. Clark be removed from Washington to Bowling Green, Mo., 
in charge of the Sergeant at Arms, attended by the committee, 
who shall have full power to carry these resolutions into effect, 
and that the necessary expenses in connection therewith be 
paid out of the contingent fund of the House. 

Resolved, That the Clerk of the House communicate these pro- 
ceedings to the Senate and invite the Vice President, the Vice 
President elect, the Members of the Senate, and the Members of 
the Senate elect to attend the funeral in the Hall of the House 
of Representatives; and that the Senate be invited to appoint a 
committee to act with the committee of the House. 

Resolved, That invitations be extended to the President of the 
United States and the members of his Cabinet, the President elect 
and the members designate of his Cabinet, the Chief Justice and 

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the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, 
the Diplomatic Corps (through the Secretary of State), the Chief 
of Naval Operations, and the General of the Army to attend the 
funeral in the Hall of the House of Representatives. 

The Speaker. The question is on agreeing to the 
resolutions. 

The resolutions were unanimously agreed to. 

Thursday, March 3, W21. 
The House met at 11 o'clock a. m. 

The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Montgomery, D. D., 
offered the following prayer: 

O God, help us to see Thee through our sorrow and to 
know Thee through the subtle processes of our hearts. 
The noblest creation of Thy handiwork is a good man. 
One has fallen; a mighty oak of the high lands has been 
lowered. In his heart there was no guile; his hand was 
never extended in infidelity; he wore his heart on his 
sleeve. 

Oh, the workmen die but the work goes on forever. He 
was so constant in his labors, so just in his decisions, so 
manly and honorable in his bearing, that we would keep 
in sacred memory the moral grandeur of this man who 
wore truth upon his brow and kept falsehood under his 
feet. 

Comfort and console the sorrowing ones to-day with the 
tenderest care, and abide with his honorable colleagues 
in the peace that passeth understanding, and may the 
watchword of this day be his word — duty. For Jesus' sake. 
Amen. 

The Speaker announced the following committee to 
attend the funeral of the late Representative Champ 
Clark, of Missouri : 

Mr. Rucker, Mr. Dyer, Mr. Dickinson, Mr. Romjue, Mr. 
Rhodes, Mr. Milligan, Mr. Hays, Mr. Bland of Missouri, Mr. 

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McPherson, Mr. Major, Mr. Newton of Missouri, Mr. Igoe, 
Mr. Rubey, Mr. Nelson of Missouri, Speaker Gillett, Mr. 
Cannon, Mr. Sherwood, Mr. Mann of Illinois, Mr. Mondell, 
Mr. Kitchin, Mr. Garrett, Mr. Fordney, Mr. Crisp, Mr. Good, 
Mr. Ryrnes of South Carolina, Mr. Longworth, Mr. Ferris, 
Mr. Campbell of Kansas, Mr. Flood, Mr. Mason, Mr. John- 
son of Kentucky, Mr. Tincher, Mr. Williams, Mr. Clark, 
Mr. Humphreys, Mr. Ireland, Mr. Hardy of Texas, Mr. San- 
ford, Mr. Gallivan, Mr. Jacoway, Mr. Walsh, Mr. Rrowne, 
Mr. Caraway, Mr. Martin, and Mr. Linthicum. 

A message from the Senate, by Mr. Crockett, one of its 
clerks, announced that the Senate had passed the follow- 
ing resolution : 

Senate resolution 472 

Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow 
the announcement of the death of Hon. Champ Clark, late a Rep- 
resentative from the State of Missouri. 

Resolved, That a committee of 14 Senators be appointed by 
the Presiding Ofiicer, to join the committee appointed by the 
House of Representatives, to take order for the superintending 
of the funeral of the deceased. 

Resolved, That the Senate accepts the invitation of the House 
of Representatives extended to the Vice President, the Vice 
President elect, the Senate, and the Members of the Senate elect, 
to attend the funeral of the deceased, to be held in the Hall of the 
House of Representatives at 10.30 o'clock a. m. on Saturday next, 
March 5, instant. 

Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to 
the House of Representatives. 

The message also announced that the Presiding Ofiicer 
had appointed as the committee on the part of the Senate 
to take order in superintending the funeral of Hon. Champ 
Clark, late a Representative from the State of Missouri, 
Senators Reed, Spencer, Robinson, Sutherland, Shields, 
Kenyon, Owen, Lenroot, Ransdell, Fernald, Ashurst, Har- 
rison, Reckham, and McKellar. 

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Mr. RucKER. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that 
all Members may be permitted to extend their remarks in 
the Record upon the life, character, and public services of 
Mr. Clark for 10 calendar days. 

The Speaker. Is there objection? 

There was no objection. 

The Speaker. By special order the House has set aside 
this hour for memorial exercises in honor of the late Rep- 
resentative Champ Clark. The gentleman from Missouri 
[Mr. Rucker] will please take the chair. 

Mr. Rucker assumed the chair as Speaker pro tempore. 

The Speaker pro tempore. The Chair will recognize the 
gentleman from Missouri [Mr. Dickinson]. 



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Address of Mr. Dickinson, of Missouri 

Mr. Speaker : A great character has passed into history. 
Missouri's foremost and best-beloved citizen has gone into 
the great beyond. The mystery of life has given way to 
the mysteiy of death. Champ Clark lives no more on 
earth, yet he lives in the hearts and affections of his mul- 
titude of friends and admirers. Those who knew him 
best loved him most. His career has been notable. His 
life work has been worth while. His years have been full 
of work and of deeds well done. 

His personality was most striking. Tall of stature, 
large of build, and big of heart, he commanded the respect 
and love of all. 

Born on March 7, 1850, in Anderson County, Ky.; on 
yesterday he died here in this Capital City, 71 years of age 
if he had lived till March the 7th. He was educated at 
Kentucky University and Bethany College and the Cin- 
cinnati Law School. At 22 he was president of Marshall 
College, West Virginia. In 1875 he moved to Missouri 
and attained high rank in the practice of law. 

He was a member of the Missouri Legislature and was 
V in Congress 26 years. He was the minority leader of his 
party in the House. He was eight years Speaker of this 
great representative body. His worthy record as Speaker 
endeared him to the entire membership of the House, and 
no man ever served in this House more loved than this 
big-hearted red-blooded Missourian. He was almost 
named by his party in the national convention at Balti- 
more in 1912. On nine ballots he was the majority choice, 

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and if the precedent of other conventions had not been 
broken, when a majority vote was quickly followed by 
a two-thirds vote, he would have been nominated and 
elected President of the United States. The history of 
that convention is known to all. 

He was worthy of all the ambitions of his life. He was 
highly educated in the classics, in literature, in law, and in 
history. He was a great historian and knew the history of 
his country and its public men. He was a great figure in 
national politics, a stalwart in his own party. He presided 
with distinguished ability as permanent chairman of the 
national convention in St. Louis, when Alton B. Parker 
was nominated for President. Not a mere politician, he 
was a statesman of high order. He loved his country, his 
State, his home, his friends. 

He was a man of rugged honesty and fearless courage, 
with a heart as tender as a child's. He was just, he was 
considerate, he loved the right and hated wrong. He 
made a good fight in the great battle of life. He loved this 
House — it was a home to him. His history is mingled with 
the strong characters with whom he served and battled 
in earnest debate. His friendships knew no party lines. 
In the closing hours of this session it is fit that unusual 
ceremonies be had in honor of this great and much-loved 
character before he is taken to his home and buried 
among his friends at Bowling Green, Mo. 

The name of Champ Clark will rank high with the best 
and strongest of our great men and live as long as history 
lives. His familiar face will not be seen again in this Hall. 
His best life work was here. He declined the urgent re- 
quest of his party associates to run for governor of his 
State and for Senator of the United States. He was ten- 
dered the appointment for Senator by Gov. Gardner of 
Missouri to succeed his much-loved friend, Senator Wil- 
liam J. Stone. He declined, preferring his work here 

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among his friends, whom he loved and who had honored 
him by repeated evidences of their confidence and affec- 
tion. He died in olFicial harness as the Representative of 
a great Missouri district and as a Member of the greatest 
deliberative body on earth. 

He has gone to his reward. His place in the hereafter is 
assured. He acted well his part in life. His established 
character and great record of deeds well done entitle him 
not only to live in the fond and endearing memory of all 
men but to a home of happiness in the great eternity 
beyond. 



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Address of Mr. Gillett, of Massachusetts 

Mr. Speaker : I think those of you who have known Mr. 
Clark only of late years must have formed a very errone- 
ous estimate of his characteristics and ability. It seems 
to me that I have seen coming over him for years the 
shadow of that doom which descended upon him yester- 
day. He had lost vigor and energy; had become languid 
and inert. Slow disease was obviously sapping his 
vitality. But 20 years ago I remember him as an intel- 
lectual gladiator in this House, of splendid physique, fine 
presence, strong voice, handsome and impressive head, 
good elocution, and back of that was an intellect, keen 
and vigorous, stored with the very kind of knowledge 
most useful in this House, because his favorite study was 
the political history of our country, and he was full of 
facts and reminiscences with which he could illustrate 
and illuminate his arguments. 1 remember him, there- 
fore, as a splendid, impressive, and forceful figure in this 
House. 

I may be mistaken in my recollection, because I find as 
we grow older that we see the past through a mist which 
seems to magnify, which makes the past look larger than 
it probably was, but it seems to me the conflicts and de- 
bates in this House at that time were marked by a higher 
vigor and ability, certainly a greater rancor and partisan- 
ship than we have witnessed of late. In those debates Mr. 
Clark always distinguished himself. He was ready, pow- 
erful, acute, full of energy, with a sort of sledge-hammer 
style that beat down resistance. He was always an enemy 
to be dreaded and an ally to be welcomed. By that vigor 
and ability he literally fought his way into leadership, 
and for several years was leader of the minoritj\ Then 

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he became Speaker. He there developed qualities that 
we hardly would have anticipated from his previous 
career, because as Speaker I think he was mainly distin- 
guished for the splendid impartiality and judicial quality 
which characterized his service. 

I have served here under five Speakers — Crisp, Reed, 
Henderson, Cannon, Clark — all men of great ability, men 
of striking qualities, for all of whom I have great admira- 
tion and regard. Yet above them all, it seems to me, in an 
impartial construction of the rules, in the power of set- >Swi 
ting aside partisanship and standing forth as the judge, 
Mr. Clark was preeminent. He won* the admiration, affec- 
tion, and confidence of both sides of the House. Then 
again for two years he became minority leader and in that 
capacity it was within his power to cause me, as Speaker, 
great embarrassment and annoyance. 

But, on the contrary, his considerateness, kindness, and 
courtesy made a position which he well might have made 
uncomfortable pleasant and easy and left in me the warm- 
est feeling of regard for his generous forbearance. I 
shall always recall him with respect and admiration, and 
I feel toward him a warm and cordial friendship which 
will be one of the precious treasures of my memory. 



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Address of Mr. Cannon, of Illinois 

Mr. Speaker: I remember Champ Clark's first appear- 
ance in tlie House, in August, 1893, the extra session of 
the Fifty-third Congress. He was in the prime of life 
and as fine a specimen of physical manliood as I ever 
saw — a handsome man and a man of fine mental prep- 
aration for the work of a legislator. 

He had the one quality which has developed leadershij^ 
in all times — confidence in his cause and confidence in 
himself. The man who does not believe in himself as well 
as in what he advocates is rarely successful. 

Mr. Clark had this confidence in his cause, and opposed 
the President of his own party affiliation in the very begin- 
ning of his service. He was severely criticized, but he had 
the courage of his convictions, and began his service by 
opposing the recommendations of President Cleveland 
for the repeal of the Sherman silver purchase law. As I 
learned to know Mr. Clark, his first action here in the 
House was typical of his whole service. He cooperated 
but did not blindly follow. 

I was an old Member then, though I had been out one 
term, and I exercised the privilege of catechizing the new 
Member from Missouri in that Congress. I thought I did 
it very thoroughly; but while I may have had the advan- 
tage and made him appear to disadvantage, I also devel- 
oped the mettle of the man, and 18 years later he suc- 
ceeded me in the Speaker's chair and held the confidence 
of liis own party and the respect of the House, whether he 
led the majority or the minority. 

The succession of events tells the story. Speaker Clark 
was not an accident. He developed along the lines of 
American ideals and American opportunities met with re- 
sponsibility — a splendid type of Amei-ican statesmanship. 

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Mr. Clark and I had the same kind of preparation for 
service here, only his was better. We both grew up on 
the farm; both studied law with few law books and a 
diversified, though modest, practice; both became State's 
attorneys; both were defeated in our first eff"orts to come 
to the House, but were not discouraged by failure. Our 
experiences were those of the average American citizen. 
We were both defeated after service here, but we came 
back, as 1 believe he would have again come back to the 
House had he lived. 

In these experiences Mr. Clark developed the confi- 
dence with which he was naturally endowed. Experience 
and courage completed the leadership he won and long 
held in the House. He asked no quarter and gave none, 
but fought in the open and according to the approved 
rules of debate. In those older days we had great con- 
tests here, and we engaged in fierce conflicts which left 
only honorable scars and no personal resentments, for 
we did not strike below the belt. 

Mr. Clark showed the same quality of leadership in 
contests for the highest leadership, and after holding the 
majority vote through eight ballots in the great national 
convention of his party and then defeated he took lus 
place in the ranks to fight as though he had never aspired 
to the Presidency. No man ever showed better courage 
and better American spirit than Champ Clark in 1912 
and from that time to his death. 

Mr. Clark and I engaged in many conflicts, and we 
continued warm personal friends from the beginning of 
our acquaintance to his death, and none of you here from 
the personal standpoint mourn the loss of the leader of 
that side of the House more keenly than I do. 

I say loss of a leader, from a personal standpoint, be- 
cause he and I differed about the proper policies without 
the loss of confidence in the patriotism of either by the 
other. 

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Address of Mr. Johnson, of Kentucky 

Mr. Speaker: A pall of grief hangs over this Chamber. 
The best-loved man who ever had a seat here has been 
called away by Him whose commission he ever sought 
most faithfully to execute. There are at least three 
earthly things that never will go out of fashion — music, 
oratory, and courage. These three our friend possessed 
in an extreme degree. I have seen his great soul moved 
to its very depths by the strains of patriotic music when 
the fortunes of the world seemed to hang in the balance. 

Not that sort of eloquence that he, in his homely, 
Lincoln-like way would have called " highfalutin' stuff"; 
not that sort that undertakes to inflame a rabble; not that 
sort that endeavors to lull into dangerous inactivity did 
he ever employ; but, instead, he used that sort of speech 
that Heaven approves and to which men respond. By 
that unpretentious but effective way which was his alone 
I have witnessed big men, entertaining opposite views, 
yield to the power of his mind and his unique expression 
of thought. 

For centuries Julius Caesar has been held by the world 
to be the greatest exemplar of courage. I have read with 
bated breath of his daring deeds, of his unflinching and 
never-quailing spirit, which men throughout all time will 
never cease to admire, even though they should not always 
approve. 

His was only a physical courage. The courage of him 
of whom I speak on this occasion was of that same 
supreme kind, but coupled with a moral courage of no 
less proportions. 

He whom we mourn was born and spent his early life 
within a very few miles of the place of my own nativity. 

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Address of Mr. Johnson, of Kentucky 

As a child I learned of many incidents in his life in 
each of which he was the chivalrous hero. The old men 
on Hardins Creek in Kentucky still tell their children and 
their children's children of the prowess of Champ Clark: 
They tell of the punishment he could take in unyielding 
silence. They tell how his magnanimity toward a beaten 
antagonist was ever present; they tell that when he 
thought it possible for him to have been too hasty or in 
the wrong in the least degree, how, out of a great moral 
courage, he could make abject apology. 

Added to the qualities of which I have just spoken 
there was ambition — not that ambition of the selfish man 
seeking power — but, rather, that to serve the ends of jus- 
tice; to protect the weak from the strong; to promote 
right; to prevent wrong. 

One afternoon as he and I together were returning from 
the Capitol to our respective homes he said to me, " Let's 
go by the Union Station. There is something there I like 
to read and reread." When we had reached the station he 
pointed up and read aloud, " Let all the ends thou aim'st 
at be thy country's, thy God's." 

His great brain was housed behind features which cor- 
rectly portrayed the character of this strong and good 
man. 

Clothed in an exterior, sometimes thought to be brusque 
by those who knew him not intimately, there beat the 
biggest, the warmest, the best heart ever placed in the 
breast of mortal man. 

Because he was but human he must have had faults; 
but he had a thousand redeeming traits of character for 
every fault he may have had. 

He never saw an object of pity that his heart did not go 
out in the fullness of sympathy. He never came across 
one needing help that his hand did not go to his pocket. 



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If yonder, in the great beyond, aught has been held 
against him, I believe — I know — that that charity, that 
mercy which ever abided in him has been met by that 
same charity, that same mercy in Him who is all charity, 
all mercy. 

To us Champ Clark is dead; but whatever it is that a 
Supreme Being holds for the good, he is now enjoying; 
wherever the place may be, his noble spirit is there. 



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Address of Mr. Mann, of Illinois 

Mr. Speaker: I hold in my hand a gavel made from 
second-growth hickory grown in Worth County, Ga., in 
the district represented by Hon. Frank Park, furnished 
by the Georgia delegation in this Congress for presenta- 
tion by the Members of the House of Representatives to 
Hon. Champ Clark. 

The gavel bears the following inscription: 

This gavel is presented by a unanimous vote of the House of 
Representatives to the great ex-Speaker, Champ Clark, on the 
day of his retirement from Congress, after 26 years of continu- 
ous, faithful, and most useful service, this March 4, 1921. He 
was chosen by a majority vote nine times successively at the 
Baltimore convention in 1912 as the nominee of his party for 
President of the United States; a typical American in stature, 
feature, mind, and feeling. Great in victory and greater in defeat. 

Inter pares facile princeps. 

When the Georgia delegation informed our departed 
friend of their desire to have this gavel presented to him, 
and the presentation speech made by a Republican Mem- 
ber of the House, and asked him to name one, he did a 
great honor to me in his loving kindness to suggest that 
I should present the gavel to him on behalf of the House. 
It is not possible for me to do that. It will be presented to 
his family. I loved the man. We were on opposite sides 
of the House. We never had extra close personal rela- 
tions, but in all the touch and contests of bitter fights 
we learned not merely to respect each other but to love 
as two brothers might. This House saw him in the days 
of great parliamentary contests, and no one ever appeared 
on this floor in a parliamentary fight who was his supe- 
rior, and some of us doubted when he was elected Speaker 

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if it were possible for a man with the parliamentary fight- 
ing propensities such as he had to preside without parti- 
sanship. He left the Speaker's chair with the respect, 
with the admiration, with the affectionate regard of every 
Member of the House, regardless of party. He has gone 
to his heavenly reward, but his memory will linger long 
in the Halls of this House, influencing those who are here 
and those who come afterwards to remember that con- 
tests over principles do not need to degenerate into per- 
sonal animosities. He was the exemplification of the 
American spirit to contest for principles and to abide 
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Address of Mr. Mondell, of Wyoming 

Ml-. Speaker: Champ Clark was an ideal example of 
American citizenship, of American statesmansliip. He 
exemplified to the fullest in his life and character the per- 
sonal and civic virtues which we are pleased to believe 
reach their most perfect development under the condi- 
tions of American life. He not only measured up to the 
highest and best standards of American ideals, but his 
virtues were peculiarly American in their manifestation 
and expression. His very faults, if he may be said to have 
had any, were American in their form and flavoi*. He 
was a son of the soil, an ideal product of a peculiarly 
sound and sane environment, a fine example of all that 
is best and most praiseworthy in American life and 
character. 

Few men in our time have appealed so strongly to the 
popular imagination; have had so many devoted friends 
or faithful followers as Champ Clark. He appealed to 
the popular imagination because, while sane and sound, 
he was picturesque in a pleasing and attractive way. His 
friends embraced men of every shade and variety of opin- 
ion, for to know him well was to be his friend. However 
much one might differ with him, his splendid human j~ 
qualities compelled admiration and attracted men to him. 
His followers were legion, and their allegiance, based and 
grounded on their confidence in his ability and judgment, 
was strengthened and cemented by their admiration of 
his kindly, considerate, and consistent character. 

Our friend ran the gamut of human experience. Provi- 
dence gave him the full measure of happiness in his family 
and social relations. His ear was familiar with the 

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plaudits of admiring constituencies, audiences, and con- 
ventions, but with these joys and triumphs came the trying 
experiences of personal bereavement and of keen politi- 
cal disappointment. Providence was very good and kind 
to him in many ways, but the fates held for him from time 
to time the agony of temporary defeat. As we think of 
our friend we are glad to remember that his joys and his 
triumphs so far outnumbered and outweighed the occa- 
sional unkindly flings of fate. 

It has been my good fortune during my political life to 
know many men for whom I have conceived a high re- 
gard; to become acquainted with many men whom I have 
been glad to claim as friends, but I have known no man 
whom I have held in higher regard, none for whom I have 
had a greater affection, than our friend to whose memory 
we offer tribute to-night. His was a rare spirit, kindly 
and courageous, confident and considerate. If all the 
world were cast in his mold what a wonderful place it 
would be to live in. He has finished his work; he has gone 
to his reward, but we are happier because we knew him, 
and the world is better for his example. We mourn that 
he is gone, but we know full well that no harm shall come 
to his pure, kindly, and courageous spirit. 



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Address of Mr. Rainey, of Illinois 

Mr. Speaker: We have assembled to-night to do honor 
to the memory of a great man amid the scenes of his 
labors, his successes, and his triumphs. With a heavy 
heart, I pay this tribute of respect and love to the memory 
of my friend. As I stand here there comes thronging upon 
me tender memories extending back over a quarter of a 
century of time. 

He was my nearest congressional neighbor. For over 
a hundred miles our districts join — his in Missouri, mine 
in Illinois — separated only by the Mississippi River. I 
knew him when he was a practicing lawyer, a handsome, 
manly man, in full possession of all the strength and vigor 
of young manhood. With admiration I followed his 
career in the National Congress for nearly a decade before 
I came here, and I have served here with him during 
the long period of 18 years. It is peculiarly appropriate 
that we conduct these ceremonies here in the Hall which 
has so often rung to the stately grandeur of his eloquence, 
but which will know him no more forever. 

The life and achievements of Champ Clark will remain 
always an inspiration for the young. A farm hand; a col- 
lege graduate; a president of a college; a clerk in a coun- 
try store; the editor of a country newspaper; a country 
lawyer; a prosecuting attorney; a presidential elector; a 
member of the legislature of his State; the author of the 
Missouri antitrust laws and the Missouri Australian ballot 
law; chairman of a great national convention; for 26 years 
a Member of Congress; a candidate for the Presidency, 
receiving in the national convention of his party a clear 
majority on many ballots; for eight years Speaker of the 
National House of Representatives, the second highest 

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office in this Republic; this, in brief, is the career of the 
man we honor here to-night. 

Full of years, his life work ended, he died in this beau- 
tiful city under the very shadow of the National Capitol. 
During all the years of his sojourn upon this earth he 
was prompted always by the tenderest of human sym- 
pathies. He has passed now beyond the mists which 
bound him here into a new and a larger life on an unseen 
shore. Through these Halls there has passed in the 
decades of our national life a stately procession of great 
men, moving through the very center of American life. 
With many of them he came in contact here in this Hall. 
Champ Clark will rank in history among the greatest of 
all of these. His colleagues in this House were always his 
friends, whether they sat on this side of the Chamber or 
on that side. He has gone to greet the friends who have 
sailed before over an unknown sea to an unseen shore. 
A few hours from now a train moving across meridians 
of longitude will convey his earthly remains to the neigh- 
bors and friends who knew him and loved him during the 
years of his sojourn upon this earth. His achievements 
are now a part of the history of his country. His great' 
soul has passed beyond the grave to participate in a larger 
existence in an unknown land. 



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Address of Mr. Dyer, of Missouri 

Mr. Speaker: Missouri, one of the splendid States of this 
great Union, universally and generally bows in mourning 
with you at the loss of our great and good friend. The 
name of Missouri has been made great by the public serv- 
ice of Champ Clark. He brought to that State great re- 
nown. He was one of our greatest citizens. For the last 
half century no Missourian has measured up to him. He 
ranked with men like Benton and Blair. I knew Mr. 
Clark as a boy. I knew him when he first was entering 
politics. I knew him when he was first nominated for 
Congress. With my father I went from the farm to hear 
him speak at the county seat. I was born and reared in 
the district that he so well represented here. He was 
to me an ideal, he was to me a man to look up to and 
watch and be benefited by his high sense of honor and 
statesmanship. 

He was beloved by the people that knew him and he 
was respected and honored by all the people. When I 
first came here in the Sixty-second Congress, when the 
roll was being called for the election of Speaker, I felt 
almost, when the name of Champ Clark was called, that 
I, though a Republican, should cast my vote for him for 
Speaker, because I had known him so well as a boy and 
because I had always admired him so greatly. I would 
go to him for advice; I would go to him for counsel. 

He was beloved by my relatives and family. He was 
one of our dearest friends. And I tell you, my colleagues, 
that not onljr our splendid State of Missouri suffered an 
irreparable loss, but likewise has the Nation, because 
Champ Clark was not only a great Missourian, he was 
one of the greatest Americans that has lived for many a 

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day. And we shall be the poorer here in this great legis- 
lative body for years to come because he has gone from 
us. It will be a long time before we will find a man to 
take his place as an upright, splendid, broad-minded 
statesman. 

He was not one who would stoop to any small things to 
gain an advantage in legislation or in politics. He was 
a man, as has been stated by those who have served with 
him here longer than 1, who would fight for that which he 
believed to be right, but he always fought with the great- 
est honor and with clean hands. And of that kind, my 
colleagues, have been the men who have made America 
what it is. It is men of that kind who write into law the 
things that have made our country great. And to-night, 
I say again, every Missourian, yea, every American, must 
be bowed with sorrow at the passing of Champ Clark, 
the former Speaker and the splendid and great American. 



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Address of Mr. Garrett, of Tennessee 

Mr. Spe.\ker: I accept the opportunity to participate in 
these ceremonies with infinite pride and unutterable sad- 
ness — pride because for 16 years I enjoyed the assur- 
ances of the confidence and esteem of the great dead 
man who stood a peer among the most illustrious charac- 
ters of his generation; sadness because I have looked for 
the last time into his handsome, classic face and felt for 
the last time the warm outflow of his great and splendid 
and generous soul. 

The intimate facts of his life and career are so fully 
known to contemporary peoples, and particularly here, 
as to render any attempted recital of them quite unneces- 
sary. His birth, his early struggles, his education, his 
success at the law, his political career, with its triumphs 
and its disappointments, all are familiar to reading peo- 
ple in every hamlet of the Republic. 

The uniqueness of his characteristics is familiar to un- 
numbered thousands who have heard him upon platform 
and stump; and everywhere that his name is known there 
is associated with it in the public thought the fine idea 
of inherent instinctive honesty, moral and intellectual. 
He was candid to the point of bluntness. He was intel- 
lectually and spiritually and physically rugged; a fighter 
all his life. 

When I say he was physically rugged I do not mean in 
features. His face was one of the handsomest and most 
striking possessed by any public man in history. He was 
distinctly individualistic and of original temperament. 
His physical movements, his mental processes, his modes 
of expression were peculiar to himself. 

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- 

His life was linked in some form to all the activities of 
the Congress of the United States for a quarter of a cen- 
tury; he became conspicuous in the early days of his 
service and grew to the highest honors which the House 
of Representatives could bestow. All that we had here 
we gave him, and wished it could be more — the best of 
committee assignments, the floor leadership of his party, 
the Speakership. 

In return he gave to us and to his country a loyal and 
illustrious service which has added to its greatness and 
its glory. 

My poor story must be imperfect and incomplete at 
best, but it would be inexcusably so did I fail to stress 
the fact that he was not only an eminent student, not 
only an author of distinction, not only a statesman of 
world fame, but a lover. All the tenderness of affection 
which his great heart could pour out was lavished upon 
the happy family of which he was the beloved head. 

He was of two States, Kentucky and Missouri, and was 
worthy of them. He kept their faith, even their great 
faith, the faith of their finest, sweetest traditions, the 
faith of their past great glories and their past loves and 
their public virtues; and I have no doubt these Common- 
wealths in especial degree will, with all others, cherish 
his memory because he maintained unbroken every thread 
in the line of public honor and measured up to the full 
requirements of their bravest and their best. 

I shall not speak of his death in any language of my 
own. Some day, perhaps, we shall know what it means; 
we do not know now. The poet may know; the poet does 
know most of the deep things of earth, and perhaps his 
vision mounts to the things beyond the earth. A great 
poet has written a great poem about death, some stanzas 
of which I think may, with entire appropriateness, be 
quoted here: 

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Sad mortal I Couldst thou but know 

What truly it means to die, 
The wings of thy soul would glow 

And the hopes of thy heart beat high; 
Thou wouldst turn from the Pyrrhonist schools, 

And laugh their jargon to scorn, 
As the babble of midnight fools 

Ere the morning of truth be born; 
But I, earth's madness above. 

In a kingdom of stormless breath — 
I gaze on the glory of love 

In the unveiled face of death. 

I tell thee his face is fair 

As the moon-bow's amber rings. 
And the gleam in his unbound hair 

Like the flush of a thousand springs; 
His smile is the fathomless beam 

Of the star-shine's sacred light. 
When the summers of Southland dream 

In the lap of the holy night; 
For I, earth's blindness above, 

In a kingdom of halcyon breath — 
I gaze on the marvel of love 

In the unveiled face of death. 

Through the splendor of stars impearled 

In the glow of the far-off grace. 
He is soaring world by world 

With the souls in his strong embrace; 
Lone ethers, unstirred by a wind. 

At the passage of death grow sweet 
With the fragrancy that floats behind 

The flash of his winged retreat; 
And I, earth's madness above, 

'Mid a kingdom of tranquil breath, 
Have gazed on the luster of love 

In the unveiled face of death. 



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But beyond the stars and the sun 

I can follow him still on his way. 
Till the pearl-white gates are won 

In the calm of the central day. 
Far voices of fond acclaim 

Thrill down from the place of souls, 
As death, with a touch Uke flame, 

Uncloses the goal of goals; 
And from heaven of heaven's above 

God speaketh with bateless breath — 
My angel of perfect love 

Is the angel men call death! 



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Address of Mr. Tillman, of Arkansas 

Mr. Speaker: Champ Clark was a man's man. He 
never daily begged the world's pardon because he had a 
few masculine vices. He was possessed of his share of 
human weaknesses, and, while not puffed up about it, 
he was not constantly apologizing to mankind because 
he had feet of clay, as most men have. For this reason 
we loved him. 

He was no carpet knight. He fought with men. The 
powder smoke of battle appealed to him and the sensual 
musk of the drawing-room did not. 

The House was his forum; the Speaker's chair his 
throne. He declined an appointment to the Senate, as his 
friends expected he would, when it was tendered. For 
26 busy years he was a Member of the House Sanhedrin, 
and for 8 years he wielded the gavel fairly, justly, with 
patience and strength. 

Speaker Clark was especially courteous and helpful to 
the new Member, and a freshman never forgets the help- 
ful tolerance of the senior. Personally, I shall never 
forget the kindly touch of his vanished hand nor the 
sound of his hopeful, helpful voice, now stilled forever. 

The lion-faced Speaker had deep religious convictions, 
but he had scant patience with cant and hypocrisy. He 
had a contempt for any plea that was tainted or corrupt, 
the more so if the pleader sought to obscure the show of 
evil with a whining and gracious voice; likewise, he 
spurned with his foot sugar-coated error, although blessed 
and approved by a sober brow. 

As a debater on the floor he could give and take blows, 
and his blade was as keen as the best. He found time to 
lecture in every part of the Nation, and his lectures were 

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pleasing and profound. He wrote much that will endure 
as valuable contributions to current literature. 

And he loved his family. That Is the true pathos and 
sublime of human life. His loyalty to his wife and chil- 
dren constitutes one of the pillars upon which his popu- 
larity will rest. 

Again I say he was a man's man. 

The color of the ground was in him, the red earth, 

The smack and tang of elemental things. 

The rectitude and patience of the cliff; 

The good will of the rain that loves all leaves; 

The friendly welcome of the wayside well. 

He held his place — 

Held the long purpose like a growing tree — 

Held on through blame and faltered not at praise, 

And when he fell in the whirlwind, he went down 

As when a lordly cedar, green with boughs, 

Goes down with a great shout upon the hills. 

And leaves a lonesome place against the sky. 



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Address of Mr. Flood, of Virginia 

Mr. Speaker: I shall not undertake to recite the history 
of the life and fortunes of Champ Clark. This has been 
graphically done by his colleagues and those who have 
preceded me. 

But, Mr. Speaker, I held his character and his great 
services to mankind and his country in the very highest 
esteem; I admired his splendid talents, his magnificent 
loyalty to principles and to friends, his courage, his 
lovable traits of character; and I was bound to him by 
ties of friendship which continually grew stronger. Such 
tribute as I can pay him in the limited time that I can 
occupy the floor to-night flows from a heart that loved 
him, was in sympathy with his history, and felt a joyous 
pride in his mighty achievements. 

Possessed of a strong and graceful figure, a splendid 
head and face, he was one of the handsomest men I ever 
saw. With an ardent, ambitious heart, a quick, strong, 
and penetrating intellect that quickly mastered the tasks 
it undertook, his course from plow to school, from school 
to college, from college to the presidency of a college, 
and from this to the study of his profession, was one of 
^intellectual triumphs. 

At the age of 25 we find him a poor and briefless bar- 
rister in an adopted State and amid new surroundings. 

The situation would have daunted a less courageous 
spirit. All honor to the republican institutions of this 
country and to the deep-seated republican spirit of the 
people which enabled Champ Clark to so quickly sweep 
away the barriers to his professional and political 
triumphs. He was successful almost from the beginning. 

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He desired that his life should illustrate those prin- 
ciples. He was a born Democrat, in the most elevated 
sense of the word. He was a man of the people, sprung 
from them, uplifted by them, loving them, and beloved 
by them. The truth of this latter statement is amply 
testified to in the way he carried State after State which 
held primaries for the expression of the choice for the 
Democratic nomination for the Presidency in 1912. 
^-He possessed a genius, fertile and diversified, which 
might have developed into many forms of distinction. 
He was a great lawyer. He had what lawyers call a legal 
mind; keenly analytic, closely logical, penetrating 
through rules to the reason of them. Whether in set 
speech or in running debate, his powers lifted him to the 
height of all occasions. 

But, above all, he was a man of a great, loyal, loving 
heart, and it was through this fact, as well as by dint of 
his decisive character and intellectual force, that he be- 
came the great and beloved leader of his party in the 
country. 

His home was his shrine. It was there that his gentle 
nature found and shed earth's richest joys amongst wife, 
children, and friends. To them his death is a calamity 
unspeakable, but in his good name and in his great and 
spotless reputation they have all that death can leave 
to alleviate its pang. 

No questionable act ever marked the fair pages of the 
private or public life of this man among men. He stood 
in the fierce light which beats against the throne, but no 
flaw was ever found in his armor through which the 
shafts of envy and slander could enter and wound his 
fame. He was gentle yet strong, courteous yet brave, 
ready to extend the soft hand of charity and grasp with 
comprehensive thought the great questions of govern- 
ment and of law. 



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Mr. Speaker, in his essay upon death Lord Bacon has 
pictured that of ex-Speaker Clark: 

He that dies in an earnest pursuit is like one that is wounded 
in hot blood, who for the time scarce feels the hurt, and therefore 
a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good doth divert 
the troubles of death. 

And so, Mr. Speaker, while our hearts are attuned to 
sorrow that a life fraught with so much good should be 
cast off from among us, our chastened reflection can dis- 
cern echoes of counsel and encouragement from his life, 
which should animate us all to a renewed and higher 
consecration, to worthy and unselfish devotion to our 
country and our kind. 

And whilst among the perplexities of this world we 
" can not always see the way " we can all become better 
and stronger for the example of such a life; and with 
pride and gratitude for such a career we can cry to our 
Father and his Father: 

Lord, I believe, help Thou mine unbelief, 
And grant Thy servant such a life and death. 



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Address of Mr. Wood, of Indiana 

Mr. Speaker: The gentleman who has just preceded me 
paid a beautiful tribute to Champ Clark, a citizen of 
Kentucky and Missouri. I wish to add a few words con- 
cerning him whose memory we so deeply revere as a 
national character. 

" The sun has its place in glory; the moon has its place 
in glory; the stars have another place in glory, but the 
stars differ in glory." We all know through the unchange- 
able law of fixation the place and the course of the sun 
and the moon, but we are not so certain with reference 
to the course and the place of the stars. Men, like the 
myriad stars, have their place, some of them vastly more 
prominent and brilliant than others; all of them, how- 
ever, serving their purpose in the Divine plan. Our de- 
parted friend has fixed for himself a place that will sur- 
vive in the annals of our country not only through the 
present generation but through the centuries yet to be. 
Through word, deed, and example he has established a 
reputation worthy of the emulation of all mankind. 

If I were called upon to write an epitaph to be inscribed 
upon the monument that will mark his last resting place, 
it would be this : " Here lies an honest man. He was 
honest to his God. He was honest to the world. He was 
honest to himself." A nobler or more truthful tribute can 
not be paid him. To his family and to all those who 
mourn his passing away there is this comforting consola- 
tion: Out of the darkness of night there comes the light 
of hope in the glory of the morning that gives the promise 
of a brighter day. 



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Address of Mr. Crisp, of Georgia 

Mr. Speaker : It was my rare good fortune to know inti- 
mately our beloved dead chieftain, and that association 
bound me to him " with hooks of steel." I had the honor 
of being his parliamentarian during his first term as 
Speaker. This House in all of its history has never had 
a fairer or more impartial or better-beloved Speaker than 
our dead friend. 

I was with him all during the most eventful days of his 
life, during those days when he was a candidate for the 
Democratic nomination for the Presidency, and during 
all of that contest and during the Baltimore convention 
he never did or said one single thing that he ever had 
cause to regret, and it has furnished to me a marvel — that 
self-control, that courage, that forgiveness, that loving 
kindness that he exemplified since those days. 

Mr. Speaker, my admiration and love for him are too 
great, my grief too poignant, for me to attempt to delin- 
eate those noble traits of character by which he rose to 
places of power and eminence and enshrined himself in 
the hearts of all of his countrymen. I never knew a 
sweeter, a kindlier, or a more lovable man than Champ 
Clark. In the language of the immortal poet, he was an 
honest man, the noblest work of God. He was a tender 
and affectionate husband, a proud and devoted father, and 
one of the truest and most loyal friends anyone ever had. 
Our country has lost in him one of its purest and ablest 
statesmen and I have lost a benefactor and a friend. I 
never hope to look upon his like again. 

Mr. Speaker, availing myself of the privilege granted to 
the Members to extend their remarks in the Record, 1 
shall incorporate as a part of my remarks a tribute written 

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concerning our beloved friend by Mr. Theodore Tiller, 
who for 10 years has been one of the Washington corre- 
spondents and intimate with Mr. Clark. The article ap- 
peared this afternoon in the Washington Times and in 
the Atlanta Journal and a number of other newspapers 
that Mr. Tiller represents. 
Following is the article referred to : 

Champ Clark Passed Into Great Unknown Universally Mourned 
(By Theodore Tiller) 

As the shadows of the evening of his long and eventful politi- 
cal life fell about him, Champ Clark, for 26 years a Member of 
Congress from Missouri and 8 years the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives, crossed over the borderland into eternity. 

It is " Uncle Joe " Cannon, long the associate and friend of 
Champ Clark, who always speaks of " crossing over," instead of 
" dying." Perhaps the term fits better the passing of Mr. Clark, 
one of the stalwart and picturesque figures in the politics and 
national life of America. 

Champ Clark's term of office would have expired at noon 
March 4. So he " died in harness," as probably he preferred to 
go if the end was to come soon. 

This is a story about Mr. Clark, not merely his biography. The 
historians will write the latter, giving to him his great yet rather 
pathetic role, so far as his later days were concerned, in our 
history. 

SETTING OF SORROW 

A scene without precedent was given its setting of sorrow when 
his death was announced to the House of Representatives. Con- 
gressman Rucker, of Missouri, himself a veteran in service and 
confidant and friend of the departed minority leader and former 
Speaker, attempted to make the formal announcement. His feel- 
ings overcame him, his voice faltered, and then he cried. 

On the Republican side Congressman James R. Mann, of Illi- 
nois, who had served a quarter of a century with Mr. Clark, 
gave way to his emotions. Congressman Madden wept, and 
Charles R. Crisp, of Georgia, one time parliamentary clerk under 
Speaker Clark and now Member of the House, made no effort to 
conceal his grief. Then all about the House floor men were seen 

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with handkerchiefs to their eyes. Some of them were young- 
sters in legislative service whom Champ Clark had advised. 
Others were men who came to Congress with him and had 
labored through all the years in personal friendship regardless 
of the aisle that divides the parties. Flags on the Capitol Build- 
ing, dropping to half-mast, told the story to the sight-seers and 
tourists outside. 

Announcements of the death of a Member are always occasions 
of sadness in the House, but old-timers could not recall to-day 
when that body so openly and generally manifested its grief. In 
the bustle of the closing days of the session a 30-minute recess 
was taken in honor of the memory of Mr. Clark. Adjournment 
was not ordered because among his dying requests was one that 
legislation be not halted to pay him tribute. 

PATHOS IN PASSING 

There is unusual pathos in the passing of Champ Clark. For 
years he was a national figure. At the Baltimore convention in 
1912 the presidential nomination was almost within his grasp for 
twenty-nine ballots. For eight ballots he had a clear majority 
in the convention, but the two-thirds rule and a coup of his ad- 
versaries took victory from him. Only once before, if memory 
is right, had the Democratic Party failed to nominate the man 
receiving a majority — and then a great domestic issue was at 
stake and the comparison is not entirely pertinent. 

Nomination at that time was virtually equivalent to election 
because of the split in the opposition. Ollie James, chairman of 
the convention, who has preceded Mr. Clark into the beyond, so 
told the convention, and his words were prophetic. 

Champ Clark never recovered fully from the shock of that 
defeat. For several years he showed the traces of supreme dis- 
appointment, not unmixed with a certain resentment toward the 
man he held primarily responsible. Time healed up but did not 
obliterate the scars of the wound received at Baltimore. 

When his convention lines were faltering Champ Clark came 
to Baltimore at night to make a dramatic appearance before the 
convention. His friends dissuaded him. Had he appeared, there 
might have been a different result, with another man now yield- 
ing the scepter of power to Warren G. Harding and with another 
man having shaped the stirring events of the Nation and the 
world during its recent years of travail. 



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SERVED WITH DISTINCTION 

But that is "water over the wheel," as Mr. Clark would some- 
times say in talking of things that had gone by. Champ Clark, 
chastened, disappointed, the victim of political circumstance, and 
with his day dreams failing to come true, went back into the 
relative ranks of the only party to which he had ever given 
allegiance, and there he served with all that was in him until his 
final roll was called. 

Yet no one who knew him as the writer has known him can 
say that he spent his last days in contentment. He died more 
or less a broken-hearted man. 

Last November Mr. Clark went down in the Republican land- 
slide, and his district voted to retire him after nearly 26 years 
of patriotic service. This hurt him, too. He showed it in his 
walk, in his mannerisms, and in converse with intimate friends. 
Philosopher that he was, appreciative of the vicissitudes of 
American politics — which he knew as a participant and his- 
torian — Champ Clark weakened noticeably after that defeat. 
Only once in his long service had he been defeated for reelection, 
but that was a score of years ago. Clark was younger then and 
possessed greater powers of political recuperation and was more 
adaptable to a sense of resignation. 

Age was upon him in this last defeat — age and the memories of 
Baltimore and a life's ambition gone, with perhaps a feeling that, 
after all, republics and constituencies are ungrateful. 

Anyway, the tragedy of the later years began to tell upon him 
recently. Just a day or so before his death a friend summed it 
all when he said: 

reserve power gone 

" I am afraid he will not get well. His power of resistance 
seems to have gone. He doesn't seem to care any more." 

Such realization as this doubtless brought the moisture to the 
eyes of many of his colleagues when it was announced that Champ 
Clark had died as the end of his public service drew near. He 
was leaving life and leaving that service at the same time. 

Necessarily the death of such a man has put a saddening 
imprint upon the Harding inaugural ceremonies. He was known 
to the President elect and to every man in Congress. All of them 
respected and admired him; most of them loved him. 

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Though sometimes a man of moods, Champ Clark had a way 
about him that brought into relief his nobler traits, his whole- 
someness, his rugged sincerity, his good heart, and that drew to 
the shadows of the background all human frailties and whatever 
inconsistencies he had. 

When in reminiscent mood Mr. Clark was a delightful story- 
teller. His knowledge of history and contemporaneous affairs 
was comprehensive. The younger generation loses much because 
he postponed too long the publication of a book of memoirs. 
Whether on the floor of Congress or the lecture platform, he 
drew from this fund of knowledge and always had an attentive 
audience. 

In debate Mr. Clark did not attempt oratorical flights nor 
studied phrase making and rounded periods. Rather was his 
delivery forceful, direct, straightforward, with epigrams and 
homely philosophy that made a political enemy wince and an 
audience laugh at his flashes of wit and satire. Commanding in 
physique, handsome in face and figure, resourceful while in the 
heat of verbal battle, he was an effective orator and a debater 
worthy of any adversary. He struck above the belt, always hold- 
ing the respect of his auditors, regardless of their political creeds. 

aided young members 

His aphorisms would make a volume. The common-sense 
advice he has given throughout his long career would fill a 
library. The aid he has given the young and " cub " legislator 
has been invaluable. His fairness as a presiding officer is one 
of the heritages of the House. The friendships he has made and 
held are monuments to his personality, his bigness, and his per- 
sonification of man's humanity to man. 

Whatever may have been his trials toward the end, his life 
throughout was eventful. That he did not reach the Presidency 
was simply one of the tragedies of politics and fateful unrealiza- 
tion of personal ambitions. He began as a farm hand. Later he 
was the youngest college president in America. Once he edited 
a country newspaper, and then worked in a country store. He 
studied law and eventually moved from Kentucky, where he was 
born, to Missouri, where he was signally honored first as a prose- 
cuting attorney and then as a Representative in Congress. 



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COMMANDED HOUSE 

With the exception of one term, following a defeat, he was a 
strong flgure in the House since the Fifty-third Congress. World- 
stirring events made Iheir permanent impressions during his 
years at Washington. He was here when war was declared 
against Spain. As Speaker of the House he signed the resolu- 
tion declaring a state of war against Germany. One of the notable 
speeches in years — a speech in which he rose to real eloquence 
in a body surcharged with tension and packed on floor and in 
galleries — was the speech of Champ Clark on the Panama Canal 
tolls issue that shook the country in the early days of the Wilson 
administration. 

As Speaker or party leader he participated in historic tariff 
debates with men whose names are linked inseparably to the 
statute books of the country. He was early a convert to woman 
suffrage, and while he served he saw woman suffrage, the direct 
election of Senators, and national prohibition written into the 
law of the land. 

CAREER WORTH WHILE 

Truly a career worth while was his — and yet as he came to the 
twilight of his day his heart was heavy and, little doubt, the 
spirit was broken. None but his intimates knew with what sor- 
row he approached the breaking up of his associations here, nor 
how bitter was the cup whose dregs he drained in Baltimore 
eight years ago. None better than his intimates knew with what 
fortitude eventually he accepted his lot and turned to such tasks 
for party and for country as were left to him to do. 

He died within two days of the end of his term. He was still 
a Congressman of the State he loved and still the floor leader of 
the party that had honored him— and yet withheld its highest 
honor, but to which, to the end, he gave " the last full measure 
of devotion," while serving meanwhile his country. 



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Address of Mr. Rodenberg, of Illinois 

Mr. Speaker : There are chords reaching from millions 
of hearts to this Capitol to-day upon which, if the winds 
could play, they would " sing a song sad enough to make 
the angels weep." 

A great man has passed away and the Nation mourns 
his passing. Champ Clark is no more. He sleeps the 
sleep of eternity. Hushed forever is that patriotic voice 
and pulseless now that lion heart. The great soul that; 
once inhabited the tenement of clay has taken its flight 
and is now glorified in the light of the eternal morn. 

Champ Clark was great in the best and truest meaning ^ 
of the word — great in character, great in ability, great in 
his conception of public duty, great in his devotion to the 
public service, and great in his abiding love for humanity. 

Intellectually honest, always candid, sincere, and 
straightforward, he abhorred hypocrisy in all its forms. 
The mask of an actor never fitted our departed friend 
He knew naught of expediency, and he did not care to 
know. Throughout his long, eventful, and distinguished 
public career he followed the path of duty outlined clearly 
and unmistakably by a conscience that was responsive 
always to the noblest impulses of true manhood. That 
was his crowning characteristic. 

We who knew him recognized his many robust virtues 
and admired them, and whatever faults he had we merged 
them into his manly qualities, because he wore them all 
on his knightly breast. 

My friends, soon we will consign his mortal remains to 
the cheerless grave, and as the sods, moistened by our 
tears, close in above them we call and listen. From the 
silent tomb there comes no answer. Only an echo, which 

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mocks our sorrow, is wafted back. The somber shadows 
thicken. All is dark. We are overwhelmed in doubt, but 
suddenly the mystic veil that separates the present from 
the hereafter is swept aside. A light breaks forth! It is 
the light of the spirit of immortality, triumphant still, 
shedding joy and peace and hope eternal. There in yon 
windowed palace of heaven we see our friend and col- 
league crowned with the wreath of immortal glory that 
awaits him of whom it can be honestly said that in all 
the vicissitudes of life he was true to his God, true to his 
country, true to family and friends, and true to himself. 



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Address of Mr. Gard, of Ohio 

Mr. Speaker: 

Who is the happy warrior? Who is he 
That every man in arms should wish to be? 

* * * « 

Who, if he rise to station to command. 
Rises by open means; and there will stand 
On honorable terms, or else retire. 
And in himself possess his own desire; 
Who comprehends his trust, and to the same 
Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim; 
And therefore does not stoop nor lie in wait 
For wealth, or honors, or for worldly state; 

* * * • 

Whose powers shed round him in the common strife. 
Or mild concerns of ordinary life, ' 

A constant influence, a peculiar grace. 

* • * • 

He who, though thus endued as with a sense 
And faculty for storm and turbulence. 
Is yet a soul whose master bias leans 
To homefelt pleasures and to gentle scenes. 

* * • « 

'Tis, finally, the man, who, lifted high, 
Conspicuous object in a nation's eye, 

* « * * 

Who, with a toward or untoward lot, 
Prosperous or adverse, to his wish or not — 
Plays, in the many games of life, that one 
Where what he most doth value must be won. 

* * * • 

And, while the mortal mist is gathering, draws 
His breath in confidence of heaven's applause: 

* • • * 

This is the happy warrior; this is he 
That every man in arms should wish to be. 

— Wordsworth. 

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Address of Mr. Sherwood, of Ohio 

Mr. Speaker : We shall all miss Champ Clark, not only 
now but in the future. He was a man we all loved, be- 
cause he had the qualities of mind and heart which 
endeared him to his colleagues. He was one of us only 
a few days ago, as a guide, as an example. All in all, the 
country has produced but few statesmen who have been 
so universally respected and loved as Champ Clark. 
Few will be longer remembered in affection and rever- 
ence. I can not find words to-day to fittingly express my 
love for him, which grew stronger as I knew him better. 

It is better than any eloquently worded eulogy to say 
that he served 26 years in Congress and never betrayed a 
friend or a cause, and died poor. Born in a log cabin, 
like Lincoln, he was, from the first to the end of his career, 
a self-made, self-educated, manly man. It can be said 
of him by those who knew him best that he never wronged 
a man or a woman during his entire career. 

No man, however high his official perch, can be truly 
great in a Republic like ours who lacks the vital element 
of human sympathy for his fellows. No public man will 
be long or gratefully remembered, however gifted intel- 
lectually, who lacks moral ideals. 

We should learn a valuable lesson from the life and 
career of Champ Clark. Every poor young man, yearning 
for an honorable career, can see the brightest gleam of 
hope in the career of Champ Clark. Over and above all 
his sterling qualities as a statesman he was enthusiasti- 
cally patriotic. 

Let us consecrate ourselves to that fervent patriotism, 
that high purpose to serve the people we are here to rep- 
resent, with the fidelity and courage which always char- 
acterized our departed friend — a colleague whose friend- 
ship added to our joys of living and whose example and 
character give us hope for the best ideals of popular 

government. 

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Address of Mr. Hays, of Missouri 

Mr. Speaker : The great Missouri Commoner has gone to 
his reward. Champ Clark is dead. 

Back in Missouri, where partisan political strife at times 
becomes the moving spirit among our people, it is but i 
natural that some strong characters should stand out \ 
almost as supermen among their fellows. Champ Clark 
was one of these. Always a Democrat, always a partisan, 
always brave and wise, always a leader whose voice was 
supreme in counsel, there was never a day in all his long , 
life when his conduct was unmanly or when his methods 
were unfair. Gifted by nature with a magnetic person- 
ality, a rugged physique, a face of inspiring dignity, a 
powerful intellect, a rare judgment of men, a clean con- 
science, and a heart responsive to the finer impulses of 
humanity, he soon became a comprehensive student of 
the great problems of public welfare. Small wonder is 
it that politics became the absorbing passion of his life. 
Champ Clark was always a politician, but he had nothing 
in common with the cheap demagogue or the charlatan y 
trickster. He was a politician whose every thought and 
act were measured in terms of statesmanship. He was a 
strong party man, because under the American method 
of handling great welfare problems it is through the 
agency of party organization that the Government can 
function to best advantage. 

Just a hundred years ago Thomas H. Benton came to the 
United States Senate from Missouri. Few men of this 
generation can define the party faith of that great man, 
but every Missourian knows that Benton was a statesman 
of the type whose memory endures long after the world 
has forgotten the battles of political warfare in which they 
were engaged. 

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When the future historian of our great Commonwealth 
calls in reverend memory the roll of Missouri's illustrious 
dead, along with the names of Benton and Blair and a few 
others of equal distinction will sound the name of Champ 
Clark. 

Born in Kentucky in 1850 and educated to the profes- 
sion of law, he became at 22, as the head of Marshall 
College in West Virginia, the youngest college president in 
America. A little later he located in Missouri and began 
the practice of his profession, taking from the first an 
active part in the political aifairs of his chosen State. His 
legislative experience began in the Missouri Legislature a 
third of a century ago. For 26 years he has been a com- 
manding figure in the American Congress and one of the 
molders of American political thought. Four times he 
was accorded the distinguished honor of the Speakership 
of the House of Representatives. 

Champ Clark was a hard fighter, but he always fought 
fair; he knew both victory and defeat. But in the adver- 
sity of political misfortune, as well as in the hour of grati- 
fying triumph, he was ever a calm, serene, and placid 
philosopher. Unmoved and unshaken either by the de- 
spair of defeat or the ecstasy of victory, he was at all times 
loyal and affable and appreciative of the slightest cour- 
tesy. On the floor of the House, where his principal 
contests were waged and where the followers of his lead- 
ership met his adversaries in almost daily conflict, he held 
the admiration and respect of every man in the Chamber 
on either side of the party line. 

It had been my privilege to know Champ Clark in a 
casual way for many years. When I came to Congress, 
unacquainted with legislative procedure, I found in him 
an adviser and a counselor, always kind and considerate 
and anxious to be of service. With all the burdens of 



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Address of Mr. Hays, of Missouri 



his arduous labor, he was never too busy to extend his 
kindly aid. 

I am told that in his last conscious hour, as he realized 
that the end was near, he requested that his death should 
not be permitted to halt the work of Congress. Knowing 
the customary procedure in paying respect to the memory 
of a departed Member, and realizing the emergencies of 
the closing days of a session, the same spirit of self- 
effacement that had always marked his career prompted 
him to think of his country even when he knew that his 
soul was i-eady to take its flight. 

To his friends, and their circle is as broad as the Na- 
tion, it will always be a sweet and solemn pleasure to 
know that he died as he lived, with the Nation's welfare 
his one supreme concern, his self-denying statesmanship 
the ruling passion strong in death. 



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Address of Mr. Romjue, of Missouri 

Mr. Speaker: When the last breath of life passed from 
the breast of Champ Clark this Nation witnessed the 
passing of one of its most distinguished citizens, one of 
its most honored statesmen, and one of its most able 
legislators. And with that passing the great Common- 
wealth of Missouri lost its most beloved citizen and son. 

As we are conducting these memorial exercises to-night 
Missourians everywhere grieve over the death of Champ 
Clark. The Nation mourns that veteran gladiator of 
many political arenas and of long public service who has 
been removed from the activities of this life. He has gone, 
but the affection, the esteem, and the respect in wliich we 
Members of this House hold Champ Clark will live on 
and on as long as there is one of us remaining. 

I have listened with deep interest to the eulogies pro- 
nounced here to-night by men who have had long service 
in this House with Champ Clark. When Mr. Mann made 
the remark, " I loved him," it called to my mind a speech 
that I heard Champ Clark make in Missouri. On the 
platform one night, when he was much more in his prime 
than we have seen him in the last two or three years, when 
he was driving away, enunciating Democratic policies 
and principles in which he so thoroughly believed, and 
as he was punching and jabbing at the doctrines taught 
by the Republican Party, he referred to the gentleman 
from Illinois, and when he did refer to him he said, " I 
love Jim Mann; I respect him; he is honest and conscien- 
tious"; and then he proceeded in his way to pound out 
as best he could the ideas for which he stood and to dif- 
ferentiate them from Republican policies. I know what 
we will witness at the funeral ceremony in Missouri next 

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Address of Mr. Romjue, of Missouri 

Monday. More tears have been shed, more tears will be 
shed, over the passing of Champ Clark than have ever 
been shed over any half dozen men that ever lived in the 
State of Missouri. His life and his character have been a 
beacon to ambitious young men in Missouri; pointing the 
way along the right path, he has been followed and ad- ...^ 
mired. The most remarkable thing, perhaps, about Champ 
Clark's character was his sturdy honesty. I knew of a 
thing Champ Clark did once that very few men would do. 
In his early political career, either when he was making 
his first or second race for membership in this body — and 
those were the days when we did not have the primaries, 
but the nominations were settled by convention — it was 
a bitter fight and contest. It grew so warm and so much 
interest was manifested in it that two neighbors riding 
along the highway one day engaged in a controversy, one 
being for Clark and one for his opponent, and after a 
while they dismounted from their horses and fought it 
out. 

When the convention came on Champ Clark was nomi- 
nated, getting the nomination by, I believe, only a few 
votes. After the convention had adjourned the defeated 
opponent went away much dissatisfied, and said that he 
should have been nominated, and that he had been de- 
prived of the nomination; that if the matter had been left 
to popular vote of the people in the district he claimed 
that he would have been nominated. 

As soon as Champ Clark heard of this he sent word to 
his opponent, saying, " I feel that you have no reason to 
complain that we have submitted our cases to the decision 
of the convention, but if you feel aggrieved I am quite will- 
ing to submit it to a popular vote of the district"; and it 
was submitted to a popular vote of the district and Champ 
Clark was renominated. 



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My friends, anyone who knows the life of Champ Clark, 
as many of you know it who have served long with him, 
know that not only the State of Missouri has lost, not only 
has our Nation lost, from the standpoint of a great politi- 
cal career, but there are no greater losers in all this Nation 
than the young men of my State, who have learned to 
know and to love Champ Clark. He began his public 
career without financial backing. He was industrious, 
ambitious, thoroughly honest, and by sheer force of char- 
acter, ability, energy, and honesty he made his way up in 
the political world. He rose gradually and steadily until 
he was within a hair's breadth of the Presidency of the 
United States, a position to which he was entitled, having 
received a clear majority of votes in the nominating con- 
vention on nine separate ballots; and had the Democratic 
convention operated like the Republican convention, 
under the majority instead of the two-thirds rule. Champ 
Clark would have been nominated and elected. He be- 
came Speaker of the House of Representatives, in which 
position he served with distinction. In this position he 
impressed upon the minds of the membership of the 
House, by his demeanor and impartial rulings, his splen- 
did ability and fitness for this high honor. 

Champ Clark was not a politician in the common ac- 
ceptation of the term, but he was a statesman of the high- 
est order, a scholar of impressive standing, a historian of 
great depth, and truly an American of the foremost rank. 

He was the best and most completely informed man in 
the United States concerning the lives, character, and 
achievements of the world's public men; in this he was 
marvelously well informed. 

Side by side in the silent hall of death our beloved 
Champ Clark, our colleague and comrade, takes his place 
among our Nation's noblest children who have crossed 
the great divide, and in that group are many brilliant 

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Address of Mr. Romjue, of Missouri 

statesmen, warriors, pioneers, and benefactors — heroes 
all, God bless them, every one. 

Next Monday, March 7, he will be laid to rest among his 
legion of friends in Missouri. This date is the seventy- 
first anniversary of his birth; and in the beautiful ceme- 
tery at Bowling Green, Mo., he shall be laid in honor, and 
the tear-dimmed eyes of sorrowing friends by the thou- 
sands who knew him best will attest the highest love and 
affection of which the human heart is capable. 

Like Napoleon with his eagles, so Champ Clark sur- 
rounded himself with the scenes of this Chamber in the 
House of Representatives in his last hours and put the 
question, " The question is on the conference report." 
We shall miss him; we shall miss his kindly counsel and 
advice, and those who have served with him in Congress 
will, as the years go by, hear in that not-forgotten voice, 
" Evidently a sufficient number," but with all, and above 
all, will live on and on that splendid character and rugged 
honesty with which he has impressed his countrymen. 

In his last conscious moments he, noble statesman and 
citizen that he was, asked that public business in Congress 
be not suspended on account of his passing away, stating 
that " the life of one man is so insignificant compared 
with the great public welfare." How like Champ Clark — 
always he had uppermost in his mind the public weal. 
He held that above all his personal interests. 

My colleagues, the achievements, the character, and the 
life of Champ Clark in the great eternal extent of time 
shall run like Tennyson's Brook. 



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Address of Mr. Stedman, of North Carolina 

Mr. Speaker: In the brief space of time to which I 
would be necessarily compelled to restrict myself to-night 
it would be idle and vain to attempt to deliver a eulogy 
on the character of Hon. Champ Clark, our deceased col- 
league and friend. Of his high and distinguished patriot- 
ism, of his attainments as a statesman, of his love of truth 
and abhorrence of falsehood, cant, and hypocrisy, and 
of other traits which belong only to the noble, I can not 
now speak and do justice to his memory. I shall seek the 
opportunity to do so, by permission of the House, at some 
time during the special session. To all of us his death is 
a grievous affliction, and to none I believe more than to 
myself. 



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Address of Mr. Bell, of Georgia 

Mr. Speaker: We have met to pay our last tribute of 
respect to a great man who only yesterday passed into the 
great beyond, from whence no traveler e'er returns. We 
are loath to give him up, but God knows best. 

I can not think thee wholly gone; 

The better part of thee is with us still; 
Thy soul its hampering clay aside hath thrown, 

And only freer wrestles with the ill. 

No man in the United States was more widely known 
or more universally loved than Champ Clark. His name 
had long since become familiar at the fireside of every 
American home. But few people in this great Common- 
wealth of ours did not know the history and life of this 
great man. 

His public service and his great personal work were 
such as to make him easily one of the greatest leaders our 
country has ever known. He was for nearly 30 years one 
of the most successful legislators in this great body of 
selected men. During his eight years as Speaker he com- 
manded the respect of every Member on both sides of the 
aisle, and all had perfect confidence in his word, his hon- 
esty, his loyalty, his judgment, and his good intentions. 

How modest, kindly, all-accomplished, wise — • 
Not swaying to this faction or to that; 
Not making his high place the lawless perch 
Of wing'd ambition, nor a vantage ground 
For pleasure; but thro' all this tract of years 
Wearing the white flower of a blameless life. 

He was a man of marked ability, calm, cool, collected, 
and absolutely sincere. He always spoke the truth and 
abhorred the slightest fabrication in any way. He was as 

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true as the needle to the pole and never played false to 
a friend. He leaves behind him a name which can not 
be defamed and a character which, if measured by gold, 
could not be counted in the days, months, and years in 
which he lived. He was an educated man, the manner in 
which he obtained his education, almost entirely through 
his own efforts, being familiar to us all and appreciated 
by everyone. His love for the right and his hatred for 
the wrong were the predominating characteristics which 
made him truly a gi'cat man. He was brave, courageous, 
determined, and self-possessed. His handsome face and 
stalwart form attracted the attention of people wherever 
he was found. 

He loved his friends and they loved him. I was thrown 
almost constantly with him for 16 years and was one of 
his most intimate and closest friends. He was the stand- 
ard bearer of my faith in the innate nobility of mankind. 
He was not like the proud sycophant, who knows so much 
and loves so little. He was never domineering nor in any 
sense resentful, but always had the highest regard for 
the wishes and desires of those with whom he associated. 
He had a heart overflowing with love for his fellow man — 

A life that all the Muses deck'd 
With gifts of grace, that might express 
All comprehensive tenderness. 
All subtilizing intellect. 

Yes; our friend, our brother, has left us, but — 

Thou steepest not, for now thy love hath wings 
To soar where hence thy hope could hardly fly. 

And often, from that other world, on this 

Some gleams from great souls gone before may shine, 
To shed on struggling hearts a clearer bliss, 
And clothe the right with luster more divine. 



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Address of Mr. Tilson, of Connecticut 

Mr. Speaker: I am not willing to let pass unimproved 
the opportunity to record a word of appreciation of ex- 
Speaker Clark. He was already at the zenith of his great 
power and influence as a Member of the House when I 
entered the Sixty-first Congress. He was then ranking 
minority memher of the Committee on Ways and Means 
and floor leader of the minority. An extra session of Con- 
gress had been called to revise the tariff. Partisan lines 
were somewhat tightly drawn and party feeling was at 
tiiTies tense. It was a critical period in the history of 
American political parties. If the Republicans could pre- 
serve party solidarity through the tariff-revision period 
it would go far toward making the revision satisfactory 
to the country, while Republican dissension meant Demo- 
cratic opportunity. Able, aggressive, resourceful leader- 
ship in the House was absolutely essential for the Demo- 
crats in order to take advantage of any Republican mis- 
takes, and such leadership they had in the person of 
Champ Clark. 

Democratic opportunity soon came, and it was not 
allowed to go unimproved. Champ Clark was preemi- 
nently a party man and a party fighter. He did not con- 
fine his activities to the times when it was political fair 
weather for his party. He had fought the battles of his 
party in foul weather as well as fair for many years, but 
in the Sixty-first Congress the political weather was surely 
most propitious for the Democrats, and he made the most 
of it. At that time no other one man in America was so 
completely or accurately representative of the Democratic 
Party. 

From a stinging defeat in 1908 he saw his party rally 
under his leadership in Congress, take full advantage of 

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Republican dissension, and easily capture the House in 
1910. He was not only the logical candidate of his party 
for the Speakership, but no one else was even mentioned 
for the place. It was one of the unfortunate consequences 
of taking full advantage of Republican division that, sub- 
stantially with his advent to the great office of Speaker, 
political exigency demanded that that high office be 
stripped of much of its power, influence, and usefulness, 
for Champ Clark was in every way qualified to become a 
great Speaker and to exercise with wisdom as well as 
patriotism all the duties and responsibilities usually asso- 
ciated with the office. 

Of the powers and duties not shorn from the Speaker, 
that of presiding over the House in actual session is, of 
course, the most conspicuous, and it was along this line 
that Mr. Clark had had least experience. As a parlia- 
mentary advocate and debater he had shown great 
strength, but as a parliamentarian it was not so certain 
that he would find it easy. No one will probably ever 
know whether or not he found it easy, and it does not mat- 
ter, but it is history too recent and too well known to need 
comment that he did become a great presiding officer. 

Champ Clark was a party man, a real partisan, and 
never claimed for a moment that he would not use the 
power of his office to advance the interests of his party, 
so far as this could be done legitimately; but he had great 
respect for the office of Speaker and he was careful that 
his rulings should be founded upon reason as well as pai-- 
liamentary precedent, so that they might be worthy of a 
place among the decisions of the great Speakers of the 
House. His work as Speaker will entitle him to rank high 
in the galaxy of great Americans who have filled that high 
office. His greatest work, however, in my judgment, was 
his work as a strong, rugged political fighter, both in the 



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Address of Mr. Tilson, of Connecticut 

ranks and as a leader of the party of which he was so 
valiant a champion. 

Our Government is, in effect, a government by party 
and has ever been most satisfactorily carried on when 
there are present and active two strong, well-organized 
parties, one in control of the Government and the other 
in opposition. Champ Clark was always a militant mem- 
ber of his party whether in power or in opposition, and < 
as such rendered his greatest and most effective service. \ i 
The country needs more of such party men, regardless of 
the party to which they belong. But Champ Clark was 
much more than a party man, more than a party fighter, 
more than a party leader. He was a big American and a 
fine rugged type of the best product of American political 
life. If his loyalty to party was great, it was but indicative 
of his still greater devotion to countiy. Much as he loved 
his party, he loved his country more. His party was for 
him but the instrument through which he served his 
country. 



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Address of Mr. Fuller, of Illinois 

Mr. Speaker: I can not let this occasion pass without 
expressing, briefly, my tribute to tlie life and public serv- 
ices of our departed friend, former Speaker Champ 
Clark, and my appreciation of the many kindnesses 
shown me by him while he was Speaker of this House. 
In his death I know that we all feel the loss of a friend 
and the country has lost one of its greatest statesmen. 
As Speaker of the House he was always fair and just. 
As a Representative he was always for what he believed 
to be for the best interests of the country. He was a typi- 
cal American — honest, sincere, just, and always patriotic. 
He loved this country and its institutions and ever had 
an abiding faith in the continued greatness, prosperity, 
and success of free government as embodied in the Con- 
stitution and laws of the country. To his family and most 
intimate friends we can only express the sympathy we all 
feel, and to the country the fact of the loss of a great 
statesman, whose patriotic services and devotion to duty 
will ever be entitled to grateful remembrance. 



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Address of Mr. Igoe, of Missouri 

Mr. Speaker: The people of the entire Nation join the 
people of the State of Missouri in mourning the death of 
Champ Clark. His passing takes from us a man who was 
loved, admired, and respected, and one whose admirable 
and distinguished public career will find a permanent 
place in the history of our country. 

To the Members of Congress who served with him he 
seemed to be as much a part of the House of Representa- 
tives as its rules and customs. He had become almost an 
institution. The memory of his service will always be an 
inspiration to the present and future Members of the 
House. His splendid character, his warm sympathy for 
the toiler, his championship of human rights, his passion- 
ate and undivided love of his country, his simple and 
unaffected manner even in the high place he attained, 
marked him as a genuine and great American. 

The story of his struggles and achievements will always 
appeal to the imagination of the American youth and will 
urge them on to high and noble efforts in their own behalf 
and in behalf of their country. 

When I became a Member of the House he went out of 
his way to help me. Many times he called me aside and, 
relating his own experiences as a Member, would encour- 
age and advise me. With all the demands upon him by 
reason of his office as Speaker, he seemed to delight in 
finding time to tell new Members of the customs and tra- 
ditions of the House, of the opportunities for great service 
that was theirs, and of the responsibilities of membership 
in the House. He believed in the House of Representa- 
tives, he had confidence in its membership, and he never 

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lost an opportunity to answer, in public and private, any 
unfair or unjust criticism of the House or its membership. 

Speaker Clark was always approachable, always ready 
to advise and assist his fellow Members, always frank, 
candid, and honest. He could not try to make himself 
appear to be what he was not. He would not hide behind 
a mask nor would he attempt to give anyone a false im- 
pression of his attitude or position. A dissembler he 
never was. Courageous in every sense of the word, he 
formed his own opinions and fought nobly for them. His 
conscience was his guide — the welfare and happiness of 
his country the sole object of his public acts. 

He was never unmindful of his obligations to those he 
represented. Upon one occasion he said : " No man is fif\ 
to be the lawgiver for a mighty people who yields to the \ 
demands and solicitation of the few who have access to 1 
his ear and is forgetful of the vast multitude who mayy 
never hear his voice nor look into his face." Champ 
Clark never listened to the few and was never forgetful 
of the vast multitude. 

He loved his party and was deeply attached to the prin- 
ciples upon which it was founded. He fought for these 
principles, even against members of his own party. He 
believed that the triumph of these principles and their 
faithful preservation were of more importance than the 
success of any individual or even the temporary success 
of the party achieved by being false to them. 

The best known and the most beloved citizen of Mis- 
souri has passed away. The people of that great State will 
never forget his splendid public service and they will 
always be proud of this distinguished son who by his life, 
character, and works brought such great honor and dis- 
tinction to her. 



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Address of Mr. Siegel, of New York 

Mr. Speaker: When I first came to Congress, six years 
ago, one of the first Members that I had the pleasure of 
being introduced to was the late Champ Clark. 

I shall always recollect how, when meeting him, he 
jocosely started to spar, remarking, " Now I fight mit 
Siegel." Similarly this attitude continued during the en- 
tire time, and on January 18 last, when the reapportion- 
ment bill was being considered, he delivered his last 
speech, commencing with the following: 

Mr. Clark of Missouri. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, all over 
Missouri there are old Union soldiers whose chief boast is that 
they " fought mit Siegel." And to-day I am going to " fight mit 
Siegel" myself. [Laughter and applause.] 

He was one of the best-read men in Congress and was 
one of its greatest students of English literature. He spent 
considerable of his time in reading American history and 
at all times and places had the work of Congress in mind. 
As he was passing away his last words were " The question- 
is on the conference report." 

During his lifetime he uttered many words of friendly 
advice to his colleagues and to the country. It is fitting, 
therefore, that his view as to the functions of the majority 
leader, minority leader, and the whip, as described by him 
in his book at pages 337 and 338 of volume 2, entitled " My 
Quarter Century of American Politics," should be here 
referred to. He believed that — 

The chief function of the majority leader is to keep the business 
of the House well in hand, to look after details, to see to it, espe- 
cially on important occasions, that his party fellows are present, 
and generally to supervise and lead in debate. He must neces- 
sarily keep in close touch with the chairmen of committees. 

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The duties of the minority leader are much the same as those 
of the majority leader. In order to succeed both leaders must 
possess tact, patience, firmness, ability, courage, quickness of 
thought, and knowledge of the rules and practices of the House. 

The whips are the right hands of the two leaders. To be 
efficient they must know the membership by sight; be on as 
friendly a footing with them as possible; know where they reside, 
both in Washington and at home; know their habits, their recrea- 
tions, their loafing places, the condition of their health and that 
of their families; the numbers of their telephones; when they 
are out of the city; when they will return; how they would prob- 
ably vote on a pending measure; what churches they attend; 
what theaters they frequent — in short, all about them. The 
ideal whip should be able to furnish a fairly good skeleton biog- 
raphy of his flock on short notice. His principal duty is to 
have his fellow political Members in the House when needed. 
On critical occasions, when great questions are to be decided, 
especially when a close vote is expected, much energy is expended 
by the whips in order to muster the full party strength. 

It may seem strange that men who are over 25 years of age 
holding the great office of Representative in Congress — a place to 
secure which they undergo all sorts of labor and wear and tear 
of brawn and brain — will, having attained it, play hooky, like 
a lot of schoolboys when fishing is good and enticing; but there 
are some such — not a great number, however. Still, there are 
enough of them to sometimes decide the fate of important meas- 
ures. These render the whips necessary. The right sort of whip 
soon becomes a great force in the House. He keeps the Speaker and 
the leader informed as to the probable vote on particular meas- 
ures and the inclinations and predilection of Members. His duties 
are multifarious and onerous, but he has his ample reward in the 
good opinion of the House and his enhanced prospects of pro- 
motion. An active and capable new Member can not secure an 
assignment more for his own benefit than that of whip, particu- 
larly when the House is in a situation approximating political 
equilibrium. In a House with a big majority one way or the other 
he is not of such great importance. 

A vast majority of measures are nonpolitical; but on many non- 
political questions the fight is as hot and the excitement is as 
tense as on political questions. 



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Address of Mr. Siegel, of New York 

When he wrote this description of the duties of these 
three important ofTicials of tlie House he expressed his 
matured thought and judgment as to the duties and obli- 
gations of those who lead in the House and of all of its 
Members. 

I shall never forget the manner in which he showed his 
affection for the three boys who happened to be on the 
floor of the House of Representatives at the time when the 
last session of the Sixty-fourth Congress was closed. He 
spoke to the two sons of the Hon. John Esch, the able 
Representative for many years from Wisconsin, and my 
oldest eon, Seymour, now 12 years of age. In addition 
thereto he wrote upon a sheet of congressional paper the 
words, " Your friend, Champ Clark," which he will always 
prize highly. 

Champ Clark left the world better than he found it, 
having found pleasure in his work all of his life. He 
always judged men by the best that was in them, and 
never sought to find their faults. Children loved him for j 
his intense interest in them, and all who knew him 
admired his sterling character, genial disposition, and 
his love for his fellow men. 

Champ Clark has passed to the far beyond, where we 
all must go some day and where we shall all meet again. 
His name, however, is endeared in the hearts of the 
American people for all time, and in years to come the 
rising generations will point to the career of a man who 
put service to his country far above everything else. 



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Address of Mr. Byrns, of Tennessee 

Mr. Speaker : Champ Clark has been called home. The 
news of his passing away had been hourly expected by 
his colleagues in Congress, for everyone knew that he 
had been critically ill for several days in his hotel near 
the Capitol and that his doctors had announced that his 
life was fast ebbing away. The death of a friend and 
loved one always comes as a great shock, even though 
it has been long expected, and when tlie announcement 
was made in the House during the noisy and busy hours 
incident to the close of the session that the brave and 
chivalrous spirit of Champ Clark had taken its flight to 
his Maker the sudden hush and stillness which swept 
over the Chamber and the unchecked tears in the eyes 
of many of the oldest Members bore eloquent witness 
of the universal love and esteem of his colleagues. 

I dare say that no Member of Congress ever enjoyed 
to a greater degree the respect and friendship of all of 
his colleagues, regardless of party affiliation. No greater 
tribute could be paid him, for, as I have often heard him 
say, there is no place outside the House of Representa- 
tives where a man's measure is taken with such unerring 
and merciless exactness. He early chose a life of service 
to his country and to his fellow man, rather than the 
pursuit of riches and his own personal and selfish hap- 
piness. In this broad field of usefulness he made good 
in the highest sense. For more than two decades he 
served as a Member of the House of Representatives. 
He has left the imprint of his wisdom and statesmanship 
in many of the highly constructive and beneficial statutes 
passed during that time. He served for eight years as 



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Address of Mr. Byrns, of Tennessee 

Speaker of the House. In times past many great Ameri- 
cans have presided over the House, but it can be truly 
said that Champ Clark presided with such gi-eat fair- 
ness and impartiality and with such ability that he will 
always rank as one of the greatest Speakers of the House. 
Mr. Speaker, it was a great privilege to have known 
Champ Clark, and a much greater privilege to have 
shared his friendship. I have taken advantage of this 
opportunity to very briefly express my admiration for 
this great American, statesman, and orator, who has 
written his name high on the scroll of those who have 
rendered distinguished service to their country and to 
their fellow man, and to express my gratitude for the 
many kindnesses shown me and the wise counsel and 
advice given me during the years of my service with him. 
His warm friend and colleague, Judge Dickinson, of 
Missouri, has truly said that those who knew him best 
loved him most. And let me add that millions of Ameri- 
can men and women who perhaps did not know him per- 
sonally, but who nevertheless are familiar with his life 
and character, mourn the loss of this splendid American 
citizen and statesman. 

Lives of great men all remind us 
We can make our lives sublime. 

And departing, leave behind us 
Footprints on the sands of time. 



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Address of Mr. Smith, of Michigan 

Mr. Speaker: I knew Champ Clark very well. During 
the first eight years of my service in the House of Repre- 
sentatives he was the Speaker, and for the last four years 
we lived at the same hotel. As Speaker he had the 
respect and confidence of all the Members. He was a 
strong Democrat, but his decisions were fairly made and 
are cited to-day as precedents by the present Republican 
Speaker. 

I attended the Baltimore Democratic convention in 
1912, as an onlooker, because of its proximity to Wash- 
ington. At that convention he led in the ballots for 
President 29 times and received a majority of all the 
votes on eight ballots. Any one of those eight ballots 
would have nominated him in a Republican convention, 
but a nominee in a Democratic convention must have not 
only a majority but also must receive two-thirds of all 
the votes cast. I was present in the House the next 
morning when the House met after the convention had 
nominated Mr. Wilson. When Mr. Clark mounted the 
Speaker's stand we all stood up and applauded and 
cheered him. He had a careworn look and was almost 
as white as marble, clearly showing the disappointment 
and effect of his defeat. He immediately called us to 
order, and without a word of comment concerning his 
defeat proceeded with the order of business. 

He declined the appointment by the governor of Mis- 
souri for United States Senator in 1918. At the last elec- 
tion he was beaten for election to Congress by a Repub- 
lican, and it would be strange if defeat following defeat 
had made no inroad upon his health. But through it all 
he never lost the good will or regard of his friends, and 
when the dread message came to Champ Clark to close 
the book of his active earthly career a pall of sadness and 

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sorrow swept over a Nation of admirers and loving 
friends who deeply mourn his departure. 

He was born on the 7th of March, 1850, and died March 
2, 1921, at his hotel in Washington while still in the har- 
ness. He had hoped that he might end his days in Con- 
gress, and this desire came to pass. Had he lived five 
days longer he would have been 71 years of age. 

Champ Clark was not only a great statesman but as 
well an author, scholar, and historian. His latest work, 
entitled " My Quarter Century of American Politics," of 
two volumes, undoubtedly will become the leading au- 
thority of the politics of his career and of his time. It 
was a real treat to listen to him discourse on political 
events, both current and past, during the long winter 
evenings at his hotel, surrounded by a large circle of 
friends. It seemed as if he knew all the Members of the 
Continental Congress and all of the chief events of all 
the other Congresses. He spoke of Thomas Jefferson as 
if they had been boon companions. He described Jef- 
ferson as having red hair, a freckled face, tall, lean, and 
lank, played a fiddle, and was fond of dancing. Stated 
that Divinity guided the hand of Jefferson when he wrote 
the Declaration of Independence. 

Strong in stature, in the prime of life, a giant in intellect 
always, he died the Grand Old Man. His life might well 
be referred to as an inspiration to any poor boy or young 
man who must be the author of his own fortune. He 
tells us that his mother died when he was only 3 days 'L<^.f-»-* 
old; that his father never had $500 worth of property 
at any one time in his life; that his first books were " The 
Life of Patrick Henry," " The Articles of Confederation," 
" The Declaration of Independence," " The Constitution 
of the United States," and "Washington's Farewell Ad- 
dress." Besides these, he also gave great attention to the 
Bible; for it was said of him that he quoted the Bible 



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/more frequently and accurately than any other public 
man in a quarter of a century. I have heard him preach 
and marveled at the readiness with which he turned to 

\different passages of Scripture. 

That he laid the foundation of his after life and suc- 
cessful career by hard work and hard study is shown by 
his attending first the common schools, then Kentucky 
University, Bethany College, and the Cincinnati Law 
School. President of Marshall College at the age of 22. 
No blessing ever befell or has been of greater benefit to 
the world than the opportunity of acquiring schooling and 
an education. But he saw the practical side of life as well, 
for he was a hired farm hand, clerk in a country store, 
editor, and lawyer. His ability was known to his constitu- 
ents, for he has held the office of city attorney, prosecut- 
ing attorney, member of the legislature, and of Congress- 
man for 24 years. 

He was very proud of his son Bennett, a most excep- 
tionally talented young man, who acted as his parliamen- 
tary clerk and who resigned to enter the World War. In 
an address delivered on the floor of the House he stated 
that should his son make the supreme sacrifice he would 
have inscribed on the simple tablet that would mark his 
resting place, " Here lies the remains of a true American 
soldier, who died in the defense of his country." 

This great American citizen has departed. He leaves 
legions of friends. He spent the best of his life in the 
service of his country. He leaves a great name and a 
most honorable career. While he was a strong partisan, 
he was nevertheless a great patriot. And while he be- 
longed to the old school of statesmen, he was vigilant at 
all times of the welfare of his country. We assign his 
faults to oblivion, while his gentle spirit wings itself with 
the sunset of eventide to the haven of eternal bliss, and 
remember him as we last knew him, " Champ Clark, the 

Grand Old Man." 

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Address of Mr. Schall, of Minnesota 

Mr. Speaker: As I listened to-night to the men of this 
House " bringing their robin's leaf to deck the hearse " 
of that great champion of democracj^ the rightful leader 
of the Democratic Party, in whose life its principles have 
been fostered and exemplified, a glowing, living, brilliant 
example of pure Americanism, it seemed the recital of 
the cold facts of a man's life as litUe show forth his warm, 
intrinsic personality as does the cold bodily habitation 
after the spirit has released its hold. The thing that made 
us love Champ Clark defies the facile phrase maker. His 
influence and personality can not be measured by the rule 
of thumb. When the last tribute has been paid him the 
hearts that love him will yearn for more. Words can not 
do justice to the wealth of the spirit that has passed be- 
yond our ken. 

The loss of his kindly, well-loved presence is personal to 
every man in this House. I could not see the striking, 
handsome face, the majesty of bearing, but I could feel 
the power of his character, the calm mastery and dignity 
of his manner, the warmth and steadiness of his friend- 
ship. He is not dead; he is more living than we. 

As I heard our beloved leader, Jim Mann, handling the 
gavel which was to have been presented by him to his old 
friend and colleague I could not resist the impulse which 
coursed through me that Champ was here among us 
and he only marvels at our misunderstanding that he 
is not, and is tried by our lack of comprehension and sym- 
pathizes at our limited material vision which can not see 
him. I wanted to suggest, " Champ Clark is here. Pre- 
sent the gavel to him." He may not be able to take it 
materially, but, radiant and unshackled as he is, he is 

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ready to receive the sign and symbol of respect, love, 
veneration. 

It seemed I could sense his presence here with us to- 
night; could almost feel the friendly pressure of his hand 
upon my knee, and hear, as was his wont, his thoughtful 
" Hello, Schall," as he passed by. I can not feel that he 
has gone to some far country, but rather is communing 
with us, and were it not for a dullness of our spiritual eye, 
a muffling of our faith, we could perceive him. 

He was so full of little kindnesses, simply given. He 
never forgot a friend. A plain, blunt patriot, whose dry 
wit played unoffendingly over friend and foe alike. 

When the House was evenly divided at the opening of 
the War Congress it fell to my lot to cast a deciding vote 
for Champ Clark for Speaker. While the motive which 
influenced me was not one of personal friendship, as I 
hardly knew Mr. Clark, but rather a desire that the ma- 
chinery of war should be speedily set in motion and not 
be retarded by a long-drawn-out battle, such as marked 
a previous like situation, still his mind was so broad 
and fair and his vision so keen that he took the deed 
for an earnest and gave me his prized friendship 
ungrudgingly. 

For the sake of record and for his family, who may 
treasure the memory of his participation in that most 
tense crisis of our national history, I wish to insert at 
this point my speech made April 2, 1917, giving reason 
for my vote as a Republican for Champ Clark as Speaker 
and for the organization of the House by the Democrats, 
and whence arose my honored privilege of nominating 
him for his last Speakership. 

The Clerk. The next business in order is the election of a 
Speaker. Nominations for Speaker are in order. 

Mr. Schall. We are met to-day efficiently and harmoniously to 
organize the House and quickly to put it into condition to transact 



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the public business. The issue of the organization of this House 
is the issue of the Nation. It is not the tariff; it is not whether 
any one party, any one man, or any one group of men shall fail 
or succeed. The question is whether the Nation, involved in an 
international crisis, shall show to the world a solid front. [Ap- 
plause.] Full cooperation between the President and Congress 
should be a national benefit, impossible with one branch Repub- 
lican and one branch Democratic. [Applause.] A State divided ^| 
against itself would stand in time of peace, but to-day such a con- / 
dition might hold a serious menace. To-day our vision should 
project beyond party cleavage. The responsibility weighing down 
our President should inspire the utmost cooperation, even to the 
extent of foregoing party advantage, that to-day's action may 
square with the public good. [Applause.] 

The extraordinary peril to-day renders partisanship dangerous, 
for it would be interpreted as showing a divided spirit. To-day 
there should be just one party, and that is the American party. 
[Applause.] We can settle our domestic differences later. Stand- 
ing at the crossway of party and Nation, as an independent Pro- 
gressive Republican I have no hesitancy as to which way is right. 
The responsibility of my vote has weighed heavily upon my soul. 
I have reviewed and rereviewed the situation from every possible 
angle, and I have again and again been forced to the same conclu- 
sion. I have asked God to guide me, that in my vote I might not 
be false to any man, much less betray a trust confided in me. 

I am not unmindful of the sterling, deserving, patriotic charac- 
ter of the able, hard-working, faithful Republican candidate, and 
were our country not facing an international crisis, with a Demo- 
cratic President and a Democratic Senate, I should with full party 
pride cast my vote for the Republican candidate. My father was 
a Republican and voted for and fought under Abraham Lincoln. 
I have always been a Republican and still am a Lincoln Repub- 
lican, and I believe that the spirit of that greatest American is here 
with us to-day, guiding the destiny of our Nation, upholding the 
hands of our President in this hour of trial. 

But I am ready at any time to give of myself whatever my 
country can use. With my sightless eyes I would be of little 
service on the field of battle, but in the position I hold I can 
to-day, with the hght that God gives me, vote right and let the 
consequences to me be what they may. [Applause.] The re- 
sponsibility of Congress, I believe, should be with the President. 

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Should the Republican Party succeed in organizing the House, 
evenly divided as it is, with a Democratic Senate and a Demo- 
cratic President, it could accrue no possible advantage and 
would only furnish an excuse for Democratic failures. The 
party that have controlled our Nation during the development of 
the present crisis should reap the harvest of the seeds they have 
sown. 

From all over the country, by wire, by letter, by petition, by 
newspaper, by voice, have come the word, whatever it may mean, 
" Stand by the President." [Applause.] The legislature of my 
State, with only one dissenting vote, passed resolutions to that 
effect. Labor, professional, business, civic, farmers, and church 
organizations and individuals all urge the upholding of the 
President. Leading Republicans from all over the country, among 
them no less than the illustrious ex-Presidents Roosevelt and 
Taft, and Elihu Root, and Charles E. Hughes, pledge their word 
to stand by the President in this international crisis. Newspa- 
pers from coast to coast are editorially calling upon the men 
intrusted with the Nation's heritage to stand by the President. I 
know of no better way, at the outset of this Congress, to assist 
the President in standing erect under his heavy burden than to 
help him retain the organization of the House, and I shall there- 
fore cast my vote for that progressive Democrat, Champ Clark 
[applause], one of the most able and one of the squarest men 
who has ever graced the Speaker's chair. [Applause.] In so 
doing it is my patriotic hope that not to-morrow nor the next 
day, but to-day, after the first roll call, the trained lightning may 
flash the message of our unity, a warning to all the world that, 
despite internal differences, when external danger threatens, from 
North to South, from East to West, Americans stand for America. 
[Applause.] 

The Clerk. Did the gentleman from Minnesota intend to place 
Mr. Clark of Missouri in nomination for Speaker? 

Mr. Schall. It was not my intention. I merely wished to state 
the reasons and motive for my vote, but, since I am going to 
vote for him, I can see no reason why I should not. I deem it 
an unusual honor and gladly place him in nomination for 
Speaker. 

The Clerk. Champ Clark, of Missouri, has been placed in 
nomination for Speaker of the House. 



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Address of Mr. Schall, of Minnesota 

However great were his mental qualities, his courage, 
his integrity, his justice, it was his heart of understanding 
that made him one of the few — never too proud to be a 
simple human being, never too dignified to show an honest 
emotion. Devoted to his family, the offering up of his 
beloved son on the altar of his country caused his step to 
halt a little and the tones of his voice to deepen with sor- 
row. He shamed not to let the tears fall, and it seemed 
to me I could note each day the chain drag a little more 
toilsomely. Even the safe return of the boy did not restore 
his former spirit, and the death of the adored little grand- 
son. Champ Clark 3d, wrenched away another hold on 
life. But when, after a long series of fruitful years and 
honest, faithful service, he was swept into the discard 
for the faults of another, faults he saw and results he 
foretold, then burst his mighty heart. I saw him in the 
corridors of the House one day in early December and 
said, " But you'll come back. Champ." He rejoined with 
bitter conviction, " Schall, I'll never come back." The 
chill foreboding of the fate that was to be his spoke in 
his words. I could not answer him. 

Yet it is a fitting end that he should die in action, die as 
he has lived, fighting foi'ward. Lawyer, statesman, patriot, 
his life will be an inspiration to the youth of our land and 
a guide to those in authority. With Washington, Jeffer- 
son, Franklin, Patrick Henry, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and 
other bulwarks of the Nation, he has joined the ages, to 
guard, by his example of life and the force of his spirit, 
the destiny of his country, his beloved America, the hope 
of the world. 



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Address of Mr. Vaile, of Colorado 

Mr. Speaker: I am sorry that I could not have said this 
instead of wi'iting it. It is the sort of thing whicli I be- 
lieve should be spoken rather than written. But I realize 
that the high honor of speaking on the floor of the House 
in commemoration of our beloved ex-Speaker should be 
granted first to those who were so fortunate as to have 
served with him longer than I. 

If I had been accorded the opportunity of speaking I 
should have told of our friend's courtesy and considera- 
tion toward me as a new Member; of how, the first day I 
came here, I rambled by mistake into the Democratic 
cloakroom and how he kept me there for half an hour 
after I had discovered my error, with the suggestion that 
I was not intruding and that he wanted to talk to me; of 
how, later, when it became necessary for me to take up 
a matter with him in his capacity as minority leader he 
not only assured me of his cooperation but offered many 
helpful suggestions. But, doubtless, many Members on 
both sides of this Chamber were drawn to him by similar 
experiences. 

So, I now desire merely to share as well as I can with 
the few who will read this printed page a little glimpse 
which I had of the man's great, tender heart. 

About a year and a half ago my wife and I and our baby 
boy and a little girl who lives with us sat at a table in the 
hotel dining room not far from the table occupied by Mr. 
and Mrs. Clark. A little child in a hotel gets into some 
bad habits because he makes so many friends in such a 
place. Ours would run away at any opportunity to go 
visiting. He always had the privileges of the floor and 
unlimited time with the ex-Speaker. We would look 

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around for him and see him standing with his chin ahout 
level with the big man's high knee engaged in very inter- 
esting and confidential discussion. 

Mr. Clark got into the habit of pausing for a few sec- 
onds at our table to speak to the baby. Often he would 
give him something to play with, a bright new penny, 
perhaps, or a pecan nut. He seemed to always have a 
supply of pecans in his pocket. I believe he was accus- 
tomed to crack them with his strong, white teeth. Once 
or twice he gave the child a flower from his buttonhole. 
He would ask the baby how he was, and the baby would 
always answer, very quickly, " Fine." 

There came a time when for a number of days Mr. 
Clark did not stop at our table, but went by, sad and pre- 
occupied. Then, later, he stopped just once more. He 
stood for a moment gently twisting a lock of the baby's 
red hair. Then he put out his big forefinger, and the child 
seized it and said " Fine," in answer to the expected 
question, before a word had been spoken. We could see 
Mr. Clark's chin twitch. We wanted to speak, but could 
not. The lumps were rising in our own throats, for it 
was the first time he had been in the dining room since 
the death of his own bright and beautiful little grandson, 
about the same age as our child. He suddenly pulled his 
finger from the baby's grasp and hurried away without 
a word. 

We knew that the great nian, the kindly gentleman, had 
stopped to bless our little lad with the hope that he might 
live long and prosper. Perhaps also he had thought to 
soothe his own grief and yearning for a moment by the 
touch of this child's hand. 

Afterwards, when that little boy was at death's door for 
two weeks, Mr. Clark spoke to me once or twice with a 
word of encouragement, but generally he would just look 
at me quite closely when he saw me here on the floor. 



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One day he must have overheard me say to some one that 
the boy was getting well, for he patted me twice on the 
shoulder and passed on without saying anything. Per- 
haps he could not trust himself to speak. 

I lost a friend yesterday. But I have lived long enough 
to lose many friends. What is much worse is that my 
little boy has lost a friend. So has every American boy. 



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Address of Mr. Eagle, of Texas 

Mr. Speaker: I think we have all been conscious in 
the last few days that a pall of sadness has come over the 
House; and this day, since we have known of the passing 
of our beloved friend, there is an evident spirit of pathos 
that amounts to personal grief visible on the countenance 
of each of us, no matter our party creeds, no matter our 
religious creeds, no matter the section of this beloved 
country from which we come. There is a familiar face 
that is missed. 

Champ Clark is no more; and each of us has lost a 
counselor, if we are young in the service; each of us has 
lost a comrade, if we are old in the service; and each of 
us has lost a veteran leader. It has seemed to me as I 
have gone through 50 years of life that it matters little 
whether a man be rich or poor, whether he leaves his 
children wealth or poverty, compared to the greater con- 
sideration of whether he achieve through life recognition 
for sterling character, uniform and unbroken courtesies 
and kindness and fidelity in service, and leaves a name to 
his family and to his country as unsullied as the stars. 
/No man ever lived a life more free from cant, more free 
/ from hypocrisy, more free from vainglory, more free from 
"^alse pretense, and more sincerely devoted to the general 
common good and to promoting peace and fellowship in 
this land than this great man who has passed away. 
Sincerity, country " horse sense," homely humor, apt 
illustration, fidelity to every trust, veracity in politics 
and public appearing, even as in private relations, made 
up the very spiritual fiber of the man. He was funda- 
mentally honest. He came from that great body of the 

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people known as the common people, was born and 
reared upon a farm, and was put out to service by his 
father when he was 8 years old. 

His young mind caught the vision then of honest toil, 
learned the reward of sincere devotion to his task, and 
developed the hope of education for himself and service 
to others. I have often thought that service is the noblest 
aim that ever uplifted human endeavor in this world, and 
Champ Clark had that ennobling motive. All of his life 
he has been indifferent to whether he gained wealth, but 
all his life he has been zealously striving to be worthy of 
the affectionate regard of his fellow man; and everywhere 
in this Nation to-night, whether in snowy Maine, Vermont, 
or Massachusetts, whether in the golden west of Oregon, 
California, or Washington, whether down on the sunny 
shores of my own Gulf of Mexico, where the hanging moss 
covers the magnolia trees and the mocking birds sing 
throughout the livelong night — everywhere in this broad 
land — are men and women of sincere heart who love 
one flag, who are national entirely in their sentiments, 
who love truth and courage and veracity and the high 
ideals of genuine Americanism, and whose tears will 
mingle with ours, whose tears will mingle with those of 
the bereaved family, that this good and great man, after 
his splendid life of service to his country, has passed away. 

And we, the Representatives of the mighty people of 
America, all bound together in one common tie of national 
fellowship, of national sentiment, of genuine American- 
ism, will take his body back to " Honeyshuck," at Bowling 
Green, in Pike County, Mo., where every man, woman, 
and child, white and black, loves him, and put him under 
the sod, and where his neighbors will cover the mound so 
high with flowers of love that his family will almost forget 
for the moment that his beloved form rests beneath. 



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I have lived as you have lived through some of the 
grandest scenes of time, and have shared with you the 
noblest emotions of the human heart. We have witnessed 
human triumph and human despair. We have seen 
human joy and we have seen human misery. We have 
seen human strength contend against human weakness, 
and we have learned to appraise the different qualities of 
the human heart, the different things that are great and 
grand in this world. 

I have seen the towering mountains rise, summit on 
summit,' until the tops were wrapped in eternal snow, 
and I thought that was grand; I have seen the glorious 
prairies of our inighty Southwest and West extend, league 
after league, in undulating beauty as far as human eye 
could see, and then onward, fit for human habitation for 
countless hundreds of millions yet unborn, and I thought 
it was grand; I have seen the Atlantic and the Pacific and 
the Gulf both in calmness, when the gentle zephyrs 
fanned my cheek, and again in the majesty of the storm 
as he rode supreme and cast those waves mountain high 
until man's mighty Leviathans seemed as mere toys, and 
I thought that was grand; I have sat time after time in 
the Metropolitan Opera House in New York and heard 
the mighty orchestra play and the individual genius and 
the splendid chorus sing the inspiring music of Faust, of 
Tannhauser, of Lohengrin, until the human spirit seemed 
to be separated entirely from the gross things of this 
earth, and it seemed to my spirit there was nothing but 
love and laughter and beauty and spirituality and holy 
things in this life, and I thought it was grand; I have sat 
under the spell of all the great orators of America, of the 
pulpit, the bar, the forum, and the hustings, and have 
considered how nearly divine is the mind, the spirit, and 
the personality of man when nobly exercising the highest 
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was grand; but the grandest thing I have ever seen is a 
good man or a good woman humbly walking in the paths 
of duty as they conceived it, under the guidance of Al- 
mighty God, with what spiritual vision had been given 
them to see it, beloved of all men who knew them, trust- 
ing others, giving of heart and giving of service, giving 
out what joy we may, receiving gratefully what affection 
others can give us, and so preparing ourselves and, as far 
as our influence goes, aiding others for a better life. And 
so noble Champ Clark, God rest his soul, having done his 
duty throughout life, rests under the benediction of his 
fellow citizens and will live in the memory of this House, 
of his constituents, and of his country as long as accurate 
history of grand deeds done efficiently is written of the 
great men of our Nation. 

Friday, March 4. 1921. 

Mr. Walsh. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that 
a record of the exercises to-morrow at the funeral of 
former Speaker Clark may be printed in the Record. 

The Speaker. The gentleman asks unanimous consent 
that a report of the exercises to-morrow at the funeral of 
ex-Speaker Clark may be printed in the Record. Is there 
objection? 

There was no objection. 



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Saturday, March 5, 1921. 

The funeral of the late Champ Clark, ex-Speaker of the 
House of Representatives, took place in the Hall of the 
House on Saturday, March 5, 1921, at 10 o'clock and 30 
minutes a. m., in the presence of the House of Repre- 
sentatives, the Senate, the Cabinet, representatives of the 
Army and Navy, the Supreme Court, the Diplomatic 
Corps, and the family of the deceased. The Speaker of 
the Sixty-sixth Congress, Mr. Frederick H. Gillett, pre- 
sided, and the Vice President occupied a chair on his left. 

The Speaker. There will be a scripture reading by the 
Chaplain of the House. 

The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Montgomery, D. D. — • 

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me 
beside the still waters. 

He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteous- 
ness for his name's sake. 

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, 
I will fear no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff 
they comfort me. 

Thou prepares! a table before me in the presence of mine 
enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. 

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my 
life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. 

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God; believe also 
in me. 

In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, 
I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you • • • 
that where I am, there ye may be also. 

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Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, 
neither do they spin: 

And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was 
not arrayed like one of these. 

Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to- 
day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much 
more clothe you, O ye of little faith? 

And he shewed a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, 
proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. 

In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, 
was there the tree of life * * * and the leaves of the tree 
were for the healing of the nations. • • * 

And there shall he no more night there; and they need no 
candle, neither light of the sun, for the Lord God giveth them 
light: and they shall reign for ever and ever. 

Amen. 

The Speaker. Prayer will be offered by Dr. Couden, 
Chaplain Emeritus. 

Rev, Henry N. Couden, D. D., Chaplain Emeritus, offered 
the following prayer : 

O Thou who art infinite in wisdom, power, and good- 
ness, we stand before Thee, the Almighty Father, and 
wait upon Thee for help in this hour of need. 

We are here in the presence of the sacred dead — dead, 

yet he liveth. He has been called to a larger and more 

sacred life. Strong of mentality, warm of heart, clear 

m vision, wise of judgment, he was a leader among lead- 

1 ers; an orator who, when he spoke, the people hung upon 

^-^lis lips with bated breath. 

Our country has lost a patriot, an honest, noble, worthy 
man, a student of the Scriptures, who tried to walk ac- 
cording to the rules of right and justice. He has left us, 
but we shall go to him, for life is eternal. 
/Creeds die, but deeds live and weave themselves into 
/ the soul of man, and will ever guide to the right and truth 
)and justice and love and mercy. 

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Be with us as we gather here; give us courage, strength, 
faith, and love, that the truth of the immortality of the 
soul may live in our hearts and lift us over the rough 
places of life; and when it is ours to answer the call, may 
we be ready to go and enter upon that larger life in one 
of God's many mansions where there will be work for 
us all. 

Let Thy special blessing be upon his widow and his 
children. His home was ideal. His affection knew no 
bounds. They loved him and will miss him all the years 
that are to come; but help them through the blessed hope 
of the immortality of the soul to look forward to a blessed 
reunion that shall never end, where sorrow, death, and 
disappointments never come. We ask it in the spirit of 
the Lord Jesus Christ, who said, " I am the resurrection 
and the life; he that believeth on me shall never die." 
Amen. 

The National Quartet — Elizabeth S. Maxwell, soprano; 
Lillian Chenoweth, alto; W. E. Braithwaite, tenor; and 
Harry M. Forker, bass — sang " How Firm a Foundation." 

ADDRESS OF MR. MANN, OF ILLINOIS 

The Speaker: An address will be delivered by Repre- 
sentative James R. Mann. 

Mr. Mann. Those who knew him best loved him most; 
and yet there are millions who never looked upon his 
countenance, molded like a finely chiseled Greek statue; 
who never heard his magnetic voice, strong, persuasive, 
and compelling in its influence; and who never in time 
of personal need received his counsel or his friendly aid; 
but they, too, loved him. 

A great legislator, a wonderful parliamentary debater, 
a strong partisan; but always a friend and a believer in 
the plain, simple citizen; he was a plain, simple man, 
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the ground. In fiery debate and strong party feeling he 
was masterly on the floor, but he never intended to inflict 
pain upon any opponent. 

His friends were wherever he was met. His partisan- 
ship did not detract from his courtliness or his courtesy. 
And when he left the floor as majority leader of his party 
and assumed the office of Speaker of the House, while he 
still remained a valuable party counselor, he never per- 
mitted partisanship to control or influence his action as 
Speaker. He drew men to him. 

Early in his career in the House he served under an- 
other strong partisan who was eminent as Speaker. Even 
in that early day of his congressional life Thomas B. Reed 
learned to know him and to love him. 

He served while Mr. Cannon was Speaker, in very 
stormy days in the House, but always had the affectionate 
regard of the Speaker, to whom he returned it. 

It is difficult for me to speak of the days while he was 
the Speaker and I was the minority leader. We had 
learned to know each other well before that time, but in 
our peculiar positions there came to be an affectionate 
regard between the Speaker, the majority leader, and the 
minority leader which seldom has been equaled and 
probably never excelled in the history of parliamentary 
bodies. Compelled to act as a partisan here on the floor, 
as I was frequently, I tried never to deceive or mislead 
the Speaker, and he more than responded with the de- 
termined effort to act as a loving father to the House, as 
a wise counselor to the country, and as a judicial, impar- 
tial presiding officer and Speaker. 

His memory will remain as an inspiration to the House 
and to the people of the country long after we are gone. 
His influence on future generations will increase as his- 
tory records what he was. We mourn him here; we knew 
his worth; we knew his loving-kindness; we knew his 

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feeling for the people; we knew and were proud of his 
American spirit, of his belief in the people and the destiny 
of his country. 

No man stands more preeminent in the history of our 
country as a good, strong American citizen than did our 
beloved friend. 

We mourn with his beloved widow, with his gallant 
son, who aided the House so well for many years; with his 
sweet daughter, who was the pet of the House; and we 
shall mourn and admire as time goes on. 

ADDRESS OF MR. REED, OF MISSOURI 

The Speaker. An address will be delivered by Senator 
Reed, of Missouri. 

Senator Reed. A wonderful stream is the river of life. 
A slender thread emerging from the mysterious realm of 
birth, it laughs and dances through the wonder world of 
childhood. Its broadening currents sweep the plains of 
youth between the flower-decked banks of romance and of 
hope. A mighty torrent, it rushes over the rapids of 
manhood and breaks in foam upon the rocks of opposi- 
tion and defeat, then glides away across the barren, 
sterile fields of age until it is engulfed and lost within the 
waters of the eternal sea. 

The robes of royalty, the beggar's rags, the rich man's 
golden hoard, the pauper's copper pence, the jeweled 
diadems of princes, and the thorny crowns of martyrs 
alike are swept by the same ceaseless tides. 

The miracle of birth, the mystery of death remain the 
unsolved problems of all time. The shepherd philoso- 
pher who three thousand years ago upon the Syrian 
plains observed the procession of the planets and con- 
templated the decrees of fate was as wise perhaps as is the 
wisest of to-day. He only knew that standing here upon 
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even the shadowy outline of the farther shore. He could 
only behold the white sails of receding fleets; ships that 
sail out, but never come again. He only knew that at the 
grave's dread mouth all men must cast aside the burden 
of their honors and their griefs; that man takes with him 
only that which he has freely given away; but that even 
death may not despoil him of the riches of service and 
self-sacrifice. 

/^Measured by that standard, he who sleeps to-day bears 
/with him to the tomb a legacy so rare that even envy is 
\compelled to pay the tribute of admiration. 

His long life was devoted to the public weal. Upon his 
country's altar he placed his wonderful natural talent, 
the zeal of his youth, the energy of middle life, the wis- 
dom of old age. 

With tireless brain he wrought to promote the general 
good, with sympathetic spirit he labored to lift the bur- 
dens of sorrow from the shoulders of the oppressed. His 
heai't cried out for all who trod adversity's harsh road. 
He explored every avenue of learning and burned his 
candle late into the night that he might gather for them 
the lore of other countries and of other times. 

The fires of patriotic love for home and country con- 
sumed his very soul. He faced each task with the heroic 
courage of those who do not count the cost. His charac- 
ter rested upon a foundation laid deep in human love. 

Champ Clark lives because his works live. He lives 
because he helped to defend and keep secure the Consti- 
tution that preserves our rights. He lives in the Declara- 
tion of Independence, whose principles he nurtured with 
a tender and fearless affection. He lives because he 
helped liberty to live. Men who have so achieved never 
die. In ever-widening circles the influences of Champ 
Clark will be felt, and deeper and yet deeper the tender 
love the people of his State have borne for him will sink 
into their hearts. 

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As time runs on and the historian surveys the picture 
of these troubled days there will arise in it no figure 
more heroic than the rugged form that lies so still to-day. 

He was the best beloved of Americans. 

How cold are words. Let me speak of the man as my 
friend. For thirty years I have known him intimately. 
I watched his course through all the storms of life. How 
big and brave and rugged was this man. He met each 
danger like a brave soldier. He never flinched from any 
task. He stood square- fronted to the world. 

They say that he is dead, but we who gaze upon his 
marble brow must realize the man wc knew does not lie 
here to-day. The soul that made him what he was can 
not have been destroyed. 

To his family I can not speak; but of them let me say 
in all the world I never knew so much of filial affection, 
of wifely tenderness, of fatherly love as was manifested 
in his home. They must find consolation in the memory 
of this glorious man. 

Soon he will sleep in the soil of his beloved State. As 
it enfolds him, the very clods that touch his coffined 
clay will be blessed with the love he bore for the old 
Commonwealth of Missouri. 

The quartet sang " Come, Ye Disconsolate." / 

Rev. Earle Wilfley pronounced the following bene- 
diction : 

Oh God, in whose hands are the destinies of the worlds, 
we now do commend this assemblage to the word of Thy 
counsel and the salvation of Thy grace. Especially we 
bear up before Thee the loved ones left behind. We 
pray Thee, Lord God, that Thou wilt temper the wind 
to the shorn lamb. Be kind. Bless the stricken family 
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final resting place may the love of God go with them and 
His strong arms be round about them. 

And now to Thee, Almighty God, we give all the praise 
for that which was beautiful and strong and kind in him 
who has passed on. Bless his memory, and may it be our 
part to keep it green, to hold it in everlasting and holy 
remembrance. 

And now may the Lord bless thee and keep thee, the 
Lord cause his face to shine upon thee and to be gracious 
unto thee, the Lord lift up the light of His countenance 
upon thee and give thee peace; through Jesus Christ, our 
Lord. Amen. 

The family, the Diplomatic Corps, the Supreme Court, 
the Cabinet, and the Senate then retired in their order. 

The body of Mr. Clark lay in state for one hour. 

Saturday, May 21, 1921. 

Mr. Jones of Texas. Mr. Chairman, I hold in my hand 
a copy of the eulogy delivered by my former colleague, Mr. 
Joe H. Eagle, on the life, character, and services of the 
late lamented Champ Clark. Through an oversight these 
remarks were not presented in time to be printed in the 
Record for the last term, and I present them at this time 
for the purpose of asking to be allowed to have them 
printed in the Record now. A little history in connection 
with the delivery of this speech might be interesting to 
those who knew and served with the brilliant Joe Eagle. 
On the evening set apart for the delivery of the eulogies 
a number of speeches had been made. I chanced to go 
into the cloakroom, where Joe was sitting, and asked him 
why he did not go out there and make a real speech such 
as everyone knew he could make. 

He replied that he felt he would have liked to say a 
few words about dear old Champ, but that the docket 

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was crowded and he had not made any preparation for 
that purpose. I immediately went to the chairman of 
the committee on arrangements (Mr. Rucker, of Mis- 
souri), and suggested that he call upon Mr. Eagle, which 
he said he would be delighted to do. I then notified 
Mr. Eagle that he would be called upon. Thus without 
preparation and with only a few minutes' notice — the 
matter having started largely in banter — was delivered 
what I think is one of the most beautiful eulogies this 
House has ever heard. 

To those who knew and had the pleasure of serving 
with Joe Eagle this was not surprising. He is one of the 
most charming men in conversation, one of the most 
eloquent and gifted orators, and one of the gentlest and 
finest spirits that ever graced the Halls of the Congress. 
He belongs to the old-time school; he adorned this House 
and we shall miss him. I present this speech as actually 
delivered, with scarcely a word changed, and ask that it 
be printed in the Record just in the form it was so 
eloquently spoken. 

The Chairman. The gentleman from Texas asks unani- 
mous consent to extend his remarks in the Record as indi- 
cated. Is there objection? [After a pause.] The Chair 
hears none. 



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Wednesday, March 2, 1921. 

A message communicated to the Senate the intelligence 
of the death of Hon. Champ Clark, late a Representative 
from the State of Missouri, and transmitted the resolu- 
tions of the House thereon, including an invitation to the 
Vice President, the Vice President elect, the Members of 
the Senate, and the Members of the Senate elect to attend 
the funeral of the deceased Representative in the Hall of 
the House of Representatives, to be held on Saturday, 
March 5, 1921, at 10 o'clock and 30 minutes a. m. 

Mr. Reed. Mr. President, I have a very painful duty to 
perform. 

For nearly a half centurj^ the public has had the services 
of one of the most remarkable men who have rendered 
the scroll of American statesmanship illustrious. At the 
age of 22 his talent was so recognized that he was made 
president of one of the important colleges of the country. 
By his own exertions he fought his way to the front and 
became distinguished at the bar of his State. He served 
with rare distinction and merit in the legislative bodies 
of his State. He came to the American Congress, where 
his great abilities and sterling patriotism won for him the 
respect of the House of Representatives, and for at least 
25 years he has been a great national figure and national 
leader. 

He was engaged in all the fierce struggles of these years, 
yet as he sleeps to-night there is not an enemy in all the 
world for Champ Clark. 

His integrity was never challenged, his manhood never 
attacked, his courage never questioned. As rugged as the 

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granite hills of his native State, as tender as the blossoms 
that glorify the fields of his adopted State, as strong as the 
oak, and as sweet as the babe he lived, and, like a good 
soldier, without fear, without drawing back, he wrapped 
the mantle of his manhood about him and laid him down 
to the embraces of that final repose which all must some 
time enter into. 

So it is my very painful duty to announce to the Senate 
that at 2 o'clock and 10 minutes to-day Champ Clark, 
former Speaker of the House of Representatives, died. 

Mr. President, I ask the Chair to lay before the Senate 
the resolutions of the House of Representatives. 

The Presiding Officer. The Chair lays before the Sen- 
ate resolutions from the House of Representatives, which 
will be read. 

The Assistant Secretary read the resolutions, as follows : 

Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of 
the death of Hon. Champ Clark, a Representative from the State 
of Missouri. 

Resolved, That a committee of the House be appointed to take 
order for superintending the funeral of Mr. Clark in the Hall 
of the House of Representatives at 10 o'clock and 30 minutes 
antemeridian, on Saturday, March 5, instant, and that the Mem- 
bers of the present House and of the House elect attend the same. 

Resolved, That, as a further mark of respect, the remains of 
Mr. Clark be removed from "Washington to Bowling Green, Mo., 
in charge of the Sergeant at Arms, attended by the committee, 
who shall have full power to carry these resolutions into effect, 
and that the necessary expenses in connection therewith be paid 
out of the contingent fund of the House. 

Resolved, That the Clerk of the House communicate these pro- 
ceedings to the Senate and invite the Vice President, the Vice 
President elect, the Members of the Senate, and the Members of 
the Senate elect to attend the funeral in the Hall of the House of 
Representatives; and that the Senate be invited to appoint a com- 
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Resolved, That invitations be extended to the President of the 
United States and tlie members of his Cabinet, the President 
elect, and the members designate of his Cabinet, the Chief Jus- 
tice and the Associate Justices of tlie Supreme Court of the 
United States, the Diplomatic Corps (through the Secretary of 
State), the Chief of Naval Operations, and the General of the 
Army to attend the funeral in the Hall of the House of Represent- 
atives. 

Mr. Reed. Mr. President, I offer the resolutions which I 
send to the desk. 

The Presiding Officer. The resolutions will be read. 

The resolutions (S. Res. 472) were read, considered by 
unanimous consent, and unanimously agreed to, as fol- 
lows: 

Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow 
the announcement of the death of Hon. Champ Clark, late a 
Representative from the State of Missouri. 

Resolved, That a committee of 14 Senators be appointed by the 
Presiding Ofiicer, to join the committee appointed by the House 
of Representatives, to take order for the superintending of the 
funeral of the deceased. 

Resolved, That the Senate accepts the invitation of the House 
of Representatives extended to the Vice President, the Vice Presi- 
dent elect, the Senate and the Members of the Senate elect to 
attend the funeral of the deceased, to be held in the Hall of the 
House of Representatives at 10.30 o'clock a. m., on Saturday 
next, March 5, instant. 

Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to 
the House of Representatives. 

The Presiding Officer. The Chair appoints as the com- 
mittee on the part of the Senate to take order in superin- 
tending the funeral of Hon. Champ Clark, late a Repre- 
sentative from the State of Missouri, Senators Reed, 
Spencer, Robinson, Sutherland, Shields, Kenyon, Owen, 
Lenroot, Ransdell, Fernald, Ashurst, Harrison, Reckham, 
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Mr. Reed. As a further mark of respect, I move that the 
Senate now take a recess until 11 o'clock to-morrow. 

The motion was unanimously agreed to; and (at 11 
o'clock and 45 minutes p. m.) the Senate took a recess 
until to-morrow, Thursday, March 3, 1921, at 11 o'clock 
a. m. 

Thursday, March 3, 1921. 
The President pro tempore. On the committee ap- 
pointed to attend the funeral of the late Representative 
Clark the Chair substitutes for the Senator from Arkan- 
sas [Mr. Robinson] the Senator from Utah [Mr. King], 
and for the senior Senator from Arizona [Mr. Ashurst] 
the junior Senator from Arizona [Mr. Smith]. 

Saturday, March 5, 1921. 
Rev. J. J. Muir, D. D., the Chaplain, offered the follow- 
ing prayer : 

Our Father, Thou art teaching us many lessons day by 
day. We are learning that the smile and the tear may be 
very close and that while rejoicings may fill our hearts at 
times shadows of grief also come to us. We ask Thee for 
Thy grace to-day to meet the shadows which hover about 
this Capitol and Nation. Direct with Thy blessing the 
comfort needed to those who are bereaved, and help us 
each to fulfill our duty according to Thy mind and will. 
For Thy Name's sake. Amen. 

Mr. Lodge. Mr. President, I ask that the Senate take a 
recess in order that it may attend the funeral ceremonies 
of the late Speaker of the House, Hon. Champ Clark, in 
accordance with the invitation of the House, and that 
the Senate proceed in a body to the Hall of the House of 
Representatives. 

Mr. Underwood. The Senate will reconvene as soon as 
we return? 

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Mr. Lodge. Certainly. I am asking tiiat the Senate stand 
in recess. 

The Vice President. Without objection, the Senate will 
stand in recess. The Sergeant at Arms will take the nec- 
essary steps to carry out the order of the Senate. 

Thereupon (at 10 o'clock and 15 minutes a. m.) the 
Senate, preceded by the Sergeant at Arms, the Vice Presi- 
dent, the Secretary, and the Assistant Secretary, proceeded 
to the Hall of the House of Representatives for the pur- 
pose of attending the funeral ceremonies. 



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